Annie Leibovitz

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

“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them.”

“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”

“I wish that all of my images had a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

“I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment pictures are all part of it.”

“One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and on. It's on all the time.”

“I'm more interested in being good than being famous.”

“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing more beautiful than reality.”

“If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.”

“I've said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is stay close to home.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm always terrified of the first roll of film.”

“You have to be in a state of calm to do this work. You have to be present.”

“My hope is that we're going into a new time in photography where it's not about trends.”

“There's a story in every person, a story that is not visible at first glance.”