Annie Leibovitz Quotes

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.

I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on creating a voice out of the music, then I might be able to reach something more profound.