Annie Leibovitz Quotes
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I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
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I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.
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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
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I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
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As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.
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I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.
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As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
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My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary.
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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for us - there's so much for us in this country.
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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
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There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.
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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.