Annie Leibovitz Quotes

I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

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.

Life in 'Blue Peter's' world is always presented as happy, positive and fun. It's an adventure that you have to make the kids believe they want to join in. There are no marks for being a scaredy-cat.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.

Be brave enough to create.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

I'm becoming more adventurous.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.