Top 62 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

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.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

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.

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.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

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.

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.

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.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.