“What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I ...” — Annie Leibovitz Quote

“What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.”

“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.”

“I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.”

“I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.”

“In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.”

“Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.”

“Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.”

“You have to know composition to be a good improviser.”

“My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.”

“Once a composition is complete I sing the track and send it to the director. He sometimes suggests I record them in my voice, and I go ahead.”

“Composition has almost always been solitary.”

“The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.”