Annie Leibovitz Quotes

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

You witness a lot as a journalist, and what you witness becomes a part of you.

A big part of reporting is just being present. You have to show up ten days in a row to get the one telling detail.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

Journalism is not writing.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.