Top 62 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

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.

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

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

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.

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.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

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.

I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.