Things happen in front of you. That’s perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. — Annie Leibovitz

Computer photography won’t be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical. — Annie Leibovitz

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. — Annie Leibovitz

Photography is not something you retire from. — Annie Leibovitz

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. — Annie Leibovitz

I fight to take a good photograph every single time. — Annie Leibovitz

It’s hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. — Annie Leibovitz

Photography’s like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It’s always hungry. — Annie Leibovitz

One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person’s time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. — Annie Leibovitz

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul–I don’t think this is possible all of the time. — Annie Leibovitz

In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills. — Annie Leibovitz

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see. — Annie Leibovitz

When you go to take someone’s picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward. — Annie Leibovitz

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. — Annie Leibovitz

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional. — Annie Leibovitz

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz

I’ve learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. — Annie Leibovitz

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. — Annie Leibovitz

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house. — Annie Leibovitz

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame. — Annie Leibovitz

I’m pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you. — Annie Leibovitz

I’ve created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism. — Annie Leibovitz

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. — Annie Leibovitz

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it’s not working, I change the position. — Annie Leibovitz

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. — Annie Leibovitz

I’ve never liked the word ‘celebrity.’ I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. — Annie Leibovitz

Irving Penn said he didn’t want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it. — Annie Leibovitz

I’ve always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market. — Annie Leibovitz

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. — Annie Leibovitz

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. — Annie Leibovitz

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up…This wasn’t a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures. — Annie Leibovitz

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we’re really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that’s when you start taking pictures. — Annie Leibovitz

I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham. — Annie Leibovitz

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. — Annie Leibovitz

A photograph is just a little, teeny–weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get. — Annie Leibovitz

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I’m an encyclopedia, you know, inside. — Annie Leibovitz

I feel very proud of the work from the ’80s because it is very bright and colorful. — Annie Leibovitz

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected. — Annie Leibovitz

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you’re with someone, like you have a companion. — Annie Leibovitz

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. — Annie Leibovitz

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor. — Annie Leibovitz