Brett Weston quotes

Brett Weston quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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 Quotes #Cameras Quotes #Tools Quotes
“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 Quotes #People Quotes #Students Quotes
“Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!”
-- Brett Weston

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

#Car Quotes #Yards Quotes
“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 Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes
“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 Quotes #Looks Quotes #Pins Quotes
“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 Quotes #Faces Quotes #Ends Quotes

“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.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“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.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
“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.”

Source : "Alan Tudyk Talks TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SUBURGATORY, and Working With Joss Whedon". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2011.
“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.”

You may also like:

Aaron Siskind
Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
Photographer
Andre Kertesz
Photographer
Ansel Adams
Photographer
Berenice Abbott
Photographer
Charis Wilson
Model
Edward Weston
Photographer
Harry Callahan
Photographer
Harry Leon Wilson
Novelist
Imogen Cunningham
Photographer
Jerry Uelsmann
Photographer
Man Ray
Artist
Michael Kenna
Photographer
Minor White
Photographer
Morley Baer
Photographer
Paul Strand
Photographer
Ruth Bernhard
Photographer
Tina Modotti
Photographer
Walker Evans
Photographer
Wynn Bullock
Photographer