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.

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.

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

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

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.

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

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.

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired.

Power seldome grows old at Court.

gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood.

We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help.