Annie Leibovitz Quotes

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

The good journalist is never objective. He is always neutral.

You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view.

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

I don't believe it's humanly possible to be free of bias.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.