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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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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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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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 don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.
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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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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 feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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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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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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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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As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
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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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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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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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There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.
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I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.
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No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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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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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.