Annie Leibovitz Quotes

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.