Annie Leibovitz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.”
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“There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.”
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“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
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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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“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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“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”
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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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“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.”
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“There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.”
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“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.”
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“One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.”
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“Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.”
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“I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you”
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“A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.”
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“When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.”
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“I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.”
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“I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.”
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“I'm more interested in being good than being famous.”
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“I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.”
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“In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.”
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“My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.”
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“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
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“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.”
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“A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.”
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“Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.”
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“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.”
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“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.”
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“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.”
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“If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.”
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“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.”
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