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1 " Photography is not something you retire from. "
― Annie Leibovitz
2 " As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself. "
3 " The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. "
4 " A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. "
5 " I'm more interested in being good than being famous. "
6 " I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. "
― Annie Leibovitz , A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005
7 " 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. "
8 " There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities. "
9 " For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply involved in a subject. The thing that saved me was that I had my camera by my side. It was there to remind me who I was and what I did. It separated me from them. "
― Annie Leibovitz , Annie Leibovitz at Work
10 " Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had to decide when and where to aim the camera. The process was linear and it never stopped. That's still true, although I've traded in my need for always taking pictures. I can't let them go by sometimes now and just be there. "
11 " Abraham helped build their cabin and split rails for a fence, but he soon left home for good. The log cabin near Decatur was, I learned, the one that went on tour after the assassination. It was dismantled by John Hanks, Lincoln's second cousin, and taken to Chicago and then to Boston. The last sighting of it, as least as far as we can ascertain, was at P.T. Barnum's museum in New York. It was apparently lost at sea while being shipped to England. "
― Annie Leibovitz , Pilgrimage
