Top 100 Weston's Quotes
#1. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.
Amy Andrews
#2. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
Edmundo Desnoes
#3. There was a strange rumor in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
Jane Austen
#4. If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.
Simon Weston
#5. Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.
Edward Weston
#6. Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language.
C.S. Lewis
#7. There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car
Brett Weston
#8. Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Edward Weston
#9. I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.
Tina Modotti
#10. I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.
Kim Weston
#11. Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.
Tom Weston-Jones
#12. Why is it that the best terrorists, the worst enemies, and the most dangerous people in the world always seem to be schooled in the North American Confederation?" Weston asked.
Evan Currie
#13. 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
#14. An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
Edward Weston
#15. I haven't stopped working hard since I was 15.
Simon Weston
#16. PROLOGUE 7TH SEPTEMBER 1874 It's the music that wakes Alison. She opens her eyes and is instantly alert, with only one thought in her mind: They are in the garden again.
Danny Weston
#17. Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
Robert Paul Weston
#18. I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.
Jonny Weston
#20. Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Edward Weston
#21. I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.
Tom Weston-Jones
#22. It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.
Anthony Weston
#23. Why is it women can never let a man have any fun, they just want to fuss about something." "They're practical" Austin said, shaking off some of the water droplets from his hair. "We live in the moment and they think about what's coming. If they didn't keep us in check, we'd fuck up the planet".
Dannika Dark
#24. Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?
Julie Johnson
#25. Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.
Simon Weston
#26. No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
Edward Weston
#27. The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
Edward Weston
#28. It's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos- Weston Michel
Rachel Van Dyken
#29. You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.
Tom Weston-Jones
#30. Weston chuckled, shaking his head. "Sometimes I wonder who's really in charge of this heap." "You are." Steph grinned. "And none of the rest of us want to take your place if you get your dumb ass killed, so bear with us, all right?
Evan Currie
#31. A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
Edward Weston
#32. I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.
Simon Weston
#33. Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.
Galen Weston
#34. I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world, often one they don't otherwise know about. And usually there's a funny bit in there somewhere.
Sophie Weston
#35. I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.
Robert Paul Weston
#36. 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
#37. John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'
Stephen Merchant
#38. I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take it literally, or rather it's quite clear to them that it's only a story, only make believe.
Robert Paul Weston
#39. Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.
John Szarkowski
#40. 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
#41. We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
Weston La Barre
#42. It appeared painful to regrow a set of hands, but I can hardly blame her for dabbling in street magic. Anyone can see she's addicted to being whole.
Robert Paul Weston
#43. If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.
Kim Weston
#44. My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.
Kim Weston
#45. The stars in their courses were fighting against Weston.
C.S. Lewis
#46. Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
Kim Weston
#47. It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
Edward Weston
#48. 'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.
Jonny Weston
#49. 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
#50. The sky's inclemency stirs up the angry winds;
the watery clouds are soaking with ceaseless rain.
The turbulent Vltava, swollen with rainy waves,
Bursting, impetuous, breaks through its river banks.
Elizabeth Jane Weston
#51. That's not to say that some day I won't go outside again, but I'm having a great time working on this process.
Kim Weston
#52. We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.
Randy Weston
#54. In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
Kim Weston
#55. In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.
Robert Paul Weston
#56. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
Simon Weston
#57. I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.
Tom Weston-Jones
#58. Cragg said, 'Come on, Rocky. I'm not getting
Gary Weston
#59. The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Kim Weston
#60. My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Edward Weston
#61. I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Kim Weston
#62. I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.
Tom Weston-Jones
#63. When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.
Simon Weston
#64. As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.
Edward Weston
#65. I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.
Tom Weston-Jones
#66. I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.
Edward Weston
#67. Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Edward Weston
#68. Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Maria Weston Chapman
#69. Pirate queens never trip. -Isabella Weston
Sara Lindsey
#70. A new love came into my life, a most beautiful one, one which will, I believe, stand the test of time ... Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love.
Edward Weston
#71. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.
Edward Weston
#72. Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
Galen Weston
#73. Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.
Edward Weston
#74. Emotions generally led to irrational and stupid actions. In this game, they were likely to be fatal. He regained his composure and became logical, rational, disconnected.
Roger Weston
#75. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#76. People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
Edward Weston
#77. The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.
Tom Weston-Jones
#78. I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'
Jonny Weston
#79. Ruby poked at her rice, her mind racing. Perhaps he'd mistaken her for someone who had done a massage course or was qualified to give spriritual advice. She could only give advice on spirits, and only then if they were alcoholic.
Lia Weston
#82. I keep your soul
In my ageing wallet,
The unimportant stuff
(Money, cards, coins)
Stay loose in my pocket,
A place as fickle as they.
Phen Weston
#83. Don't jump in with two feet where truly informed people tread with care.
Anthony Weston
#84. I did tap dancing and stuff like that at drama school. I did ballet as well. My dance teacher and I didn't necessarily get along all that well sometimes. She's brilliant ... but it's just because I don't like wearing tights that I put up a bit of a fight there, I think.
Tom Weston-Jones
#85. The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.
Neville Weston
#86. To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
Kim Weston
#87. The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
Edward Weston
#88. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Robert Paul Weston
#89. My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.
Celia Weston
#90. The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." - Helen Mirren
Judith Weston
#91. Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.
Simon Weston
#92. If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
Kim Weston
#93. I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
Kim Weston
#94. Ah! the year is slowly dying,
And the wind in tree-top sighing,
Chant his requiem.
Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
High in air wild birds are calling,
Nature's solemn hymn.
Mary Weston Fordham
#95. 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
#96. In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.
Tom Weston-Jones
#97. To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
Edward Weston
#98. Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.
Robert Paul Weston
#99. My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.
Michael Weston
#100. I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.
Max Pam
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