Brett Weston Quotes

#1. Time keeps on slipping into the future.

Steve Miller

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

Brett Weston

#5. Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

Brett Weston

#6. 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

#7. Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.

Stendhal

#8. 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

#9. If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

Cecelia Ahern

#10. 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

#11. Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Kim Weston

#12. 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

#13. A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

Ernest Rutherford

#14. Even if he had to coax her kiss by slow kiss. Cats were good at coaxing. It was only a more sensual aspect of their favorite game - stalking.

Nalini Singh