Annie Leibovitz Quotes

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

Music was always ever present when I was growing up, and it's continued to be the most important and intrinsic part of me. It kept me from going off the rails as a kid, and it gave me rare purpose and self-confidence that I couldn't find from anything else.

Life itself is inspiration.

What are your goals? Where are you going? Why are you here? What are you? Scientology has answers to these questions, good answers that are true, answers that work for you. For the subject matter of Scientology is you.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

A camera gives you a purpose.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

I am what survives of me.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Life is essentially a question of values.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?