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.

Annie Leibovitz
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;... - Neil Gaiman

  2. Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love–you know, things I don't care about anymore. - Lady Gaga

  3. I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her. - Tom Leveen

  4. The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. - Tom Bodett

  5. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. - George Carlin

More Quotes By Annie Leibovitz
  1. Photography is not something you retire from.

  2. 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...

  3. The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

  4. A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

  5. My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Related Topics