Weston Quotes

#1. You have no idea, do you? You two lost each other - I lost both of you." He hurls the bottle at the wall. It smashes against the tiles over the sink and the place instantly reeks of beer. "Screw this." He shifts. Two seconds later something hits the wall in his room. #Quote by Paula Weston

#2. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process. #Quote by Kim Weston

#3. Weston, having been born in Chicago, was raised with typical, well-grounded, mid-western values. On his 16th birthday, his father gave him a Kodak camera with which he started what would become his lifetime vocation. During the summer of 1908, Weston met Flora May Chandler, a schoolteacher who was seven years older than he was. The following year the couple married and in time they had four sons.
Weston and his family moved to Southern California and opened a portrait studio on Brand Boulevard, in the artsy section of Glendale, California, called Tropico. His artistic skills soon became apparent and he became well known for his portraits of famous people, such as Carl Sandburg and Max Eastman. In the autumn of 1913, hearing of his work, Margrethe Mather, a photographer from Los Angeles, came to his studio, where Weston asked her to be his studio assistant. It didn't take long before the two developed a passionate, intimate relationship. Both Weston and Mather became active in the growing bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles. She was extremely outgoing and artistic in a most flamboyant way. Her bohemian sexual values were new to Weston's conventional thinking, but Mather excited him and presented him with a new outlook that he found enticing. Mather was beautiful, and being bisexual and having been a high-class prostitute, was delightfully worldly. Mather's uninhibited lifestyle became irresistible to Weston and her photography took him into a new and exciting art form. #Quote by Hank Bracker

#4. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems. #Quote by Simon Weston

#5. It might've started as a lie, Faith, but it sure as hell didn't end as one. I might not have been real to you, and that's fine. But you have to know ... you were real to me." His voice dropped so low I could barely hear him. "It was real to me. It's still real. The realest fucking thing I've ever felt. #Quote by Julie Johnson

#6. I see no reason for recording the obvious. #Quote by Edward Weston

#7. Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm. #Quote by D.J. Niko

#8. The wind took me away from you,
Draped with fear, waking nightmare,
I lost all sense of who I could become,
Your exuberant hold slipped away,
Irresolute, impulsive, irreconcilable. #Quote by Phen Weston

#9. Who knew such belongings?
That the truest love
Could blend
The margins of life
Into forgotten wants. #Quote by Phen Weston

#10. When I was young there were some things I didn't understand.
I never understood how Superman could love Lois Lane ... #Quote by Jaree Francis

#11. An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. #Quote by Edward Weston

#12. 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. #Quote by Phen Weston

#13. 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. #Quote by Max Pam

#14. You needn't play, Mr. Weston," Emma said. "I only agreed to play for Lizzie's sake, so . . ." "Oh, come, Miss Smallwood. Please tell me you don't shun all things athletic as you did as a girl." A teasing light shone in his eyes. "Afraid you'll lose?" Emma huffed. "I am not afraid to lose. I know I shall. This isn't chess, after all." One eyebrow rose. "Oh, ho! A shot to the heart. The lady recalls soundly trouncing me, I see. Then you must give me a chance to redeem myself." He set aside his hat and adopted a ready stance, bouncing lightly from foot to foot. He looked fifteen years old all over again. Emma felt a grin lift a corner of her mouth. "Oh, very well. But promise not to laugh too hard." "I promise. #Quote by Julie Klassen

#15. Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language. #Quote by C.S. Lewis

#16. 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. #Quote by Tina Modotti

#17. The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango is a travelogue. Acting as narrator and guide, Weston takes you on a trip to places familiar and obscure-New Orleans, the Sonoran desert, Mexico's Pacific coast, and the dark, impenetrable reaches of the soul. He shows off sights that chill the blood, and as with any good trip, the things seen and experienced along the way will stay with you for a lifetime. #Quote by Jeff Mariotte

#18. Thirty minutes until I saw Weston. I shouldn't be this excited about a ride home. #Quote by Jennifer Laurens

#19. Seriously." He turned me so I was facing him. "I'm not gonna lie. I want you. I want you so freaking bad that I'm pretty sure when I get to heaven I'm going to be sainted. #Quote by Rachel Van Dyken

#20. Making a series can sometimes feel like you're keeping a secret for months until it comes out; so when it finalizes in front of you, if you like the final product, it can be very exciting. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#21. If you won't be you...who will? #Quote by Carol Weston

#22. I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way. #Quote by James Weston

#23. My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. #Quote by Edward Weston

#24. There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment ... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. #Quote by Edward Weston

#25. 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.' #Quote by Jonny Weston

#26. What sanctuary is there in indulging the whims of falling stars? #Quote by Phen Weston

#27. 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. #Quote by Kim Weston

#28. In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet. #Quote by Anthony Weston

#29. Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision? #Quote by Edward Weston

#30. Here is a story that's stranger than strange.
Before we begin you may want to arrange:
a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,
and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.
I'll warn you, of course, before we commence,
my story is eerie and full of suspense,
brimming with danger and narrow escapes,
and creatures of many remarkable shapes.
Dragons and ogres and gorgons and more,
and creatures you've not even heard of before.
And faraway places? There's plenty of those!
(And menacing villains to tingle your toes.)
So ready your mettle and steady your heart.
It's time for my story's mysterious start ... #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#31. Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. #Quote by Edward Weston

#32. Jessica Rabbit! People wouldn't call her the most beautiful person in Hollywood, but I find her quirkiness and talent very attractive. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#33. I straighten and stretch my neck side to side. 'I really need to hit something.'
Rafa's mouth quirks. 'I know what you need.'
'In your dreams.' I know where this is going: it's been the same banter for about five decades now. Usually he saves it for an audience.
'In my dreams, Gabe, you end up slick with sweat and moaning.'
'I have food poisoning?'
He laughs, a beer halfway to his lips. Condensation drips from the bottle. He's completely at ease here: three-quarter cargoes, frayed t-shirt, bare feet. 'I'm just saying that if you need distracting, I'm your man.'
'If I wanted to go places everyone else has been, Rafa, I'd take a trip to Disneyland.'
He leans in closer. 'Yeah, but don't you want to know why everyone loves Space Mountain? #Quote by Paula Weston

#34. A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference." "Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others," rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part. "But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously. #Quote by Jane Austen

#35. I was alone, for twenty-five years. And I didn't give a shit, because I didn't know what I was missing.
Then, this stubborn, beautiful fucking brunette came barreling into my life and shoved her way through all the shadows. #Quote by Julie Johnson

#36. I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#37. I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance. #Quote by Kim Weston

#38. 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. #Quote by Brett Weston

#39. One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this - then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment. So I can make without thought, fifteen carefully considered negatives, one every fifteen minutes, given material with as many possibilities. But there is all the eyes have seen in this life to influence me. #Quote by Edward Weston

#40. The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white ... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends. #Quote by Edward Weston

#41. The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? #Quote by Edward Weston

#42. It's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos- Weston Michel #Quote by Rachel Van Dyken

#43. The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. #Quote by Neville Weston

#44. 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. #Quote by Kim Weston

#45. It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster. You see a piece set in the 1300s or the 1800s, and you've got characters who have perfect abs and are incredibly well-groomed, not a hair out of place, and it just doesn't make sense. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#46. Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people. #Quote by Simon Weston

#47. The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically - that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make. #Quote by Edward Weston

#48. Thank you, Professor Weston... < - How about those ellipses? Did they fit there)
- Gillian #Quote by Whitney G.

#49. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal. #Quote by D.J. Niko

#50. On a hill we rest,
Watching virtue
Hold the heavens. #Quote by Phen Weston

#51. Casualties? What do I care about casualties? #Quote by Aylmer Hunter-Weston

#52. I had never realized before how quickly men deteriorate without razors and clean shirts. They are like potted plants that go to weed unless they are pruned and tended daily. A single day's growth beard makes a man look careless; two days', derelict; and four days', polluted. Blix and Weston hadn't shaved for three. #Quote by Beryl Markham

#53. Mine is the time of foliage,
When hills and valleys teem
With buds and vines sweet scented,
All clothed in glowing green.

My nights are bright and starry,
My days are long and clear
And truly I'm the fairest,
Of all months in the year. #Quote by Mary Weston Fordham

#54. What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything. #Quote by Kim Weston

#55. I knew I really didn't look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn't wait to go back for more. #Quote by Charis Wilson

#56. This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut. #Quote by Gabriel Weston

#57. If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#58. I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19. #Quote by Jonny Weston

#59. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#60. To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. #Quote by Edward Weston

#61. Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera. #Quote by Kim Weston

#62. If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living. #Quote by Simon Weston

#63. I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. #Quote by Edward Weston

#64. 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. #Quote by Kim Weston

#65. Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#66. I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print. #Quote by Edward Weston

#67. I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script. #Quote by Ben Daniels

#68. What woke him was a subconscious awareness of atmospheric change. The billowing curtains over his east windows looked like a fat ghostly intruder. #Quote by Carolyn Weston

#69. Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,
And are setting the world by the ears! #Quote by Maria Weston Chapman

#70. Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#71. The English artist likes line more than color or texture. #Quote by Neville Weston

#72. For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated. #Quote by Edward Weston

#73. … 'Truth,' Hegel says, is seen as the end of thought. It is revealed where thought attains its telos, which is something to be determined by thinking itself. The truth is not something external to thought to which it may correspond and which would allow the possibility of the skeptical question,
but is rather the immanent goal thought is itself directed towards… #Quote by Michael Weston

#74. We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. #Quote by Weston La Barre

#75. We're quiet for a moment. And then: 'Why did you call me Matt?'
'It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now that I know you, I realise I should have called that character Dick.'
He laughs, and then the couch shakes. 'Honestly, Gabe, I forgot you could be this much fun. #Quote by Paula Weston

#76. Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. #Quote by Weston La Barre

#77. I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. #Quote by Kim Weston

#78. Yes,' said Oyarsa, 'but one thing we left behind us on the harandra: fear. And with fear, murder and rebellion. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.' Weston #Quote by C.S. Lewis

#79. When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time. #Quote by Simon Weston

#80. Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#81. I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#82. 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. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#83. If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead! #Quote by Edward Weston

#84. No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras #Quote by Edward Weston

#85. Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter. #Quote by Neville Weston

#86. You will never learn to fly unless you jump! #Quote by Weston L. Blair

#87. I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself. #Quote by Kim Weston

#88. 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. #Quote by Brett Weston

#89. I don't believe I have been compromised. At least not past redemption. -Isabella Weston #Quote by Sara Lindsey

#90. He would have thought God could make his own decisions, but Weston believes the creator may be pushed and coaxed and maybe bribed a little. #Quote by Hilary Mantel

#91. In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future. #Quote by Randy Weston

#92. When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life. #Quote by Simon Weston

#93. I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me. #Quote by Kim Weston

#94. Calm down," Rafa says.
"Yeah," I say, "because you're an expert at patience."
"Which is why I look to you to set the example."
"Oh, fuck off. #Quote by Paula Weston

#95. After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo. #Quote by Simon Weston

#96. Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer. #Quote by Maria Weston Chapman

#97. The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood. #Quote by Edward Weston

#98. I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#99. So called "composition" becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. #Quote by Edward Weston

#100. Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. #Quote by Maria Weston Chapman

#101. 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. #Quote by Celia Weston

#102. 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. #Quote by Edward Weston

#103. On my way home that evening I felt an effervescence of spirit which built up inside me until I felt like shouting out loud for the sheer hell of it. The school, the children, Weston, the grimy fly-infested street through which I hurried - none of it could detract from the wonderful feeling of being employed. At long last I had a job, and though it promised to tax my capabilities to the full, it offered me the opportunity - wonderful word - of working on terms of dignified equality in an established profession. #Quote by E.R. Braithwaite

#104. 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. #Quote by Brett Weston

#105. George Weston, after all was only a man - poor thing - and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. #Quote by Isaac Asimov

#106. I hear you've been with every Rephaite in a skirt.'
Crap. Where did that come from?
'Who told you that?' HIs smile shifts into something less amused. 'Daniel. Who else? The prick.'
'Is he a liar?'
Rafa leans against the pale wall. 'I haven't been with everyone.'
'What about Taya?'
'Hell, no. I'm no monk, but I have standards.'
I wonder what else Daniel was wrong about. 'What about me?'
Rafa's teasing smile doesn't quite reach his eyes. 'You had standards too. #Quote by Paula Weston

#107. Dear Mr. Weston,
Hello again. We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you. I guess things have been pretty quiet since the Salvation Army tried to take over the world.
We are sorry, but after much deliberation we have elected not to assign any men to Protect Trillium Air Base. We feel that the Forces can protect themselves, and if they can't, who is going to protect the country?
Also, thank you for sending us that shard of broken glass with the fingerprint on it. It was yours. Our mail clerk required four stitches and a tetanus shot.
Relay our condolences to your Mr. Waghorn. We have no idea what unfortunate circumstance (for him) drew him to your ever-watchful attention, but he has no criminal record and his face is not known to us. Yours Sincerely,
Bruce Hmmm, thought Sidney, Waghorn has no criminal record.
"Let me see one of those," said Tom.
"I'm sorry, Tom, but I can't show you the letters."
Tom muttered something about a lack of trust. He was extremely alarmed at the intensity of Sidney's expression. As Sidney himself would have put it, the investigation was progressing. That meant trouble. There was always trouble when his brother got to the letter-writing stage. Tom would have to stay on his toes.
Sidney opened the last letter. Dear Mr. Weston,
Please stop bothering us. Cordially yours,
The Ontario Provincial Police. #Quote by Gordon Korman

#108. Cragg said, 'Come on, Rocky. I'm not getting #Quote by Gary Weston

#109. Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work. #Quote by Kim Weston

#110. Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour. #Quote by Edward Weston

#111. 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. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#112. No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare #Quote by Kingsley Amis

#113. I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. #Quote by Kim Weston

#114. '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. #Quote by Jonny Weston

#115. Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art. #Quote by Neville Weston

#116. Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker. #Quote by Edward Weston

#117. 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". #Quote by Dannika Dark

#118. Emerald leaves crossed our paths
with veracity marked in golden drafts,
somewhere deep amid the pending vapours
of humility and dance,
did we dance across the skies? #Quote by Phen Weston

#119. The fact is that Superman should be fat. He should be a lard-assed superhero with flabby arms, a beer gut, and soft muscles.
...when Superman bench-presses a Cadillac, he doesn't even break a sweat. It's like picking up a bag of feathers. Would Batman be buff if he bench-pressed feathers? Because that's essentially what Superman does every day. #Quote by Weston Ochse

#120. Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching #Quote by Neville Weston

#121. I know exactly who I am. It's everyone else who seems to be having a problem. #Quote by Paula Weston

#122. My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was. #Quote by Kim Weston

#123. Most stories are based on something real. #Quote by Paula Weston

#124. The night, cold and silent,
Held a warmth and sound
That echoed through my thoughts.
It wasn't deafening as it crashed
All around, only mildly amusing.
The shadows devoured the light
Which gracefully enhanced
Their deep rich darkness.
The world circled and danced,
Leapt and ran, swimming
Throughout the witching hour. #Quote by Phen Weston

#125. The pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models. #Quote by Edward Weston

#126. Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. #Quote by Edward Weston

#127. This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. #Quote by Edward Weston

#128. command was small for so great an invasion, but rather like a mountain torrent sweeping all before it by its impetuous rush. In swift ruin the Persian empire was toppled over, and in the most wonderful series of victories in the history of the world Alexander carried his arms beyond the limits of the known world to the river Jhelum or Hydaspes. #Quote by W. H. Weston

#129. 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. #Quote by Elizabeth Jane Weston

#130. 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. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#131. Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. #Quote by Edward Weston

#132. Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#133. 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. #Quote by Kim Weston

#134. 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. #Quote by Edward Weston

#135. A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others. #Quote by Edward Weston

#136. When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision. #Quote by Edward Weston

#137. To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism ... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation. #Quote by Edward Weston

#138. You're right. You're not a princess
you're Little Red. and I'm the Big Bad Wolf. #Quote by Julie Johnson

#139. It's been a long time since you asked me for anything. I'm not going to fuck it up. #Quote by Paula Weston

#140. I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I'd told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston. The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. The third rule is that if you can't get over it, you must pretend that you have. The fourth rule is that if you can't even pretend that you have, you shouldn't show up. You should stay home, because it's hard for everyone else to have you around. And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed.
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed. #Quote by Anne Lamott

#141. Rafa straightens. 'Just let me figure a few things out.'

'Like why you didn't help me?'

He shrugs, unrepentant. 'I thought it was an act. It didn't cross my mind you wouldn't fight.'

'If I knew how to fight, Rafa, you wouldn't still be conscious.'

That brings a quick grin to his face. 'See, now that gives me hope all's not lost. You're still in there somewhere.'

'Who's still in here? Who is it you and those psychopaths think I am?'

His smile fades. 'You really don't know. #Quote by Paula Weston

#142. Writing is life – it's where my heart leads me each day, and how I understand the world we live in. #Quote by Phen Weston

#143. In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in. #Quote by Edward Weston

#144. I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. #Quote by Edward Weston

#145. How can you be so sure?" I badly want to believe him, but this is Rafa. The guy who's all action and no plan.
His smile is tired, knowing. An echo of a shared past I don't remember. "Because I'm not smart enough to give up, and you don't know how to. #Quote by Paula Weston

#146. I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey. #Quote by Simon Weston

#147. The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules. #Quote by Kim Weston

#148. When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work. #Quote by Edward Weston

#149. The painters have no copyright on modern art! ... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims. #Quote by Edward Weston

#150. I feel quite grounded, which is great. #Quote by Tom Weston-Jones

#151. 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. #Quote by Edward Weston

#152. We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck. #Quote by Julie Johnson

#153. I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time. #Quote by Jonny Weston

#154. The darkroom is just the means to an end. #Quote by Kim Weston

#155. No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do. #Quote by Kim Weston

#156. The stars in their courses were fighting against Weston. #Quote by C.S. Lewis

#157. I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else. #Quote by Kim Weston

#158. Was it privilege to love you?
Painted hues of viridescent lives
to those lost seconds when we saw
the world begin again in strides. #Quote by Phen Weston

#159. You believe what he's saying - that they're demons?"

Simon nods.

"Like, from hell?'"

"No," Rafa says, "from Comic-Con." He shakes his head. "Yes, from hell. #Quote by Paula Weston

#160. It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. #Quote by Edward Weston

#161. 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. #Quote by Edward Weston

#162. 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. #Quote by Randy Weston

#163. At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows. #Quote by Randy Weston

#164. Where on earth have you got to, man?" "In here," Alfred replied from the sanctuary of the foliage. "I think I've found it. Yes, there it is. Bloody good luck. I thank you for your help, Seton. You need not detain yourselves further." "At least join us for a late supper, Weston," Lord Seton pressed, peering into the #Quote by Michelle McMaster

#165. Calm down Weston. It was just a window. I wasn't aiming for your head. - Samuel #Quote by Angela Richardson

#166. Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. #Quote by Edward Weston

#167. We're not doing that, and you know it." He doesn't speak again I lean closer, lower my voice. "I know things are messy with us, but do you really think I could just walk away from you?"

This time he doesn't look away. "Do you really think I'd let you? #Quote by Paula Weston

#168. The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life. #Quote by Celia Weston

#169. Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell. #Quote by Kim Weston

#170. My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing. #Quote by Kim Weston

#171. As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance. #Quote by Kim Weston

#172. To be honest, I was never really interested in theatre as a kid. #Quote by Michael Weston

#173. Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. #Quote by Maria Weston Chapman

#174. Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. #Quote by Michael Weston

#175. Through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed. #Quote by Edward Weston

#176. 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. #Quote by Neville Weston

#177. 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. #Quote by John Szarkowski

#178. 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. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#179. 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.' #Quote by Stephen Merchant

#180. Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep he from fracturing into a thousand little pieces? #Quote by Christie Ridgway

#181. The event had every promise of happiness for her friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship #Quote by Jane Austen

#182. Now the Gang of McCrook was a miserable mob,
for whom robbing you blind was an everyday job.

They were known for their violence and criminal feats,
for a seedy selection of sinful deceits
from robbery, arson, and pyramid schemes,
to snatching the mascots from basketball teams.

They had once robbed a pet shop of all of its cash,
and they never - not ever - recycled their trash! #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#183. In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power. #Quote by Maria Weston Chapman

#184. Rising out of the water of the pool, I squeezed the water from my hair. It was then I heard a crash and looked over to the workout room to find Weston no longer on the treadmill, but lying against the wall. #Quote by K.I. Lynn

#185. Emma shivered again, and Mr. Weston noticed. "You're cold. Here, take this." He began to peel off his greatcoat, but she stayed him with a hand to his sleeve. "Don't. I'm fine." Realizing she had touched him, she snatched back her hand and forced a chuckle. "It is only your gruesome story. #Quote by Julie Klassen

#186. 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. #Quote by Edward Weston

#187. Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human. #Quote by Weston La Barre

#188. Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained. #Quote by Edward Weston

#189. I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks. #Quote by Robert Paul Weston

#190. What do you feel?" Curiosity hung in the air.
Matt was thankful Darian didn't walk out except now he had to explain himself. "I feel jittery."
"Oh, then it's gotta be love." Darian shook his head and turned away.
Matt knew sarcasm when he heard it. He grabbed Darian's elbow and pulled him into his arms. Darian's hands were smashed to his chest and his face was very close to Matt's. "I'm not letting you walk out." He asserted. "You make me feel sick."
"Oh, that's so much better. #Quote by Wade Kelly

#191. I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me! #Quote by Edward Weston

#192. We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. #Quote by Kim Weston

#193. 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. #Quote by Jonny Weston

#194. 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. #Quote by Kim Weston

#195. I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel. #Quote by Kim Weston

#196. The ... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium ... I say that chance enters into all branches of art: a chance word or phrase starts a new trend of thought in a writer, a chance sound may bring a new melody to a musician, a chance combination of lines, new composition to a painter ... Chance - which in reality is not chance - but being ready, attuned to one's surroundings - and grasp my opportunity ... #Quote by Edward Weston

#197. I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. #Quote by Edward Weston

#198. Weston helped me to not be afraid.
Weston took me outside and showed me the world. #Quote by Abbie Emmons

#199. My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. #Quote by Edward Weston

#200. If I could count the infinity of you
I'd place each second within your soul,
and lay my breath between the stars
that form your heart and whole. #Quote by Phen Weston