“I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories abo...” — Annie Leibovitz Quote

“I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.”

“Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.”

“I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.”

“There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.”

“Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.”

“Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.”

“History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.”

“If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.”

“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”

“When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period, then maybe it can be dead because nobody plays like that anymore. But jazz is progressive music; it always has to progress, and musicians always have to find new landscapes and new ways to speak out, so of course it's always changing.”

“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”