Brett Weston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
-- Brett Weston

#Art #Cameras #Tools
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
-- Brett Weston

#Photography #People #Students
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
-- Brett Weston

#Photography #Inspiration #Brutal
My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
-- Brett Weston

#Photography #Feelings #Facts
There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car
-- Brett Weston

#Car #Yards
I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.
-- Brett Weston

#Play #People #Mind
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.
-- Brett Weston

#Trying #Looks #Pins
Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.
-- Brett Weston

#Dad #Faces #Ends

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Brett Weston famous quotes

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