Quotes by 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.

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

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

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'm more interested in being good than being famous.

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

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.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

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 wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.