Kim Weston Quotes & Sayings

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist. — Kim Weston

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality. — Kim Weston

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

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance. — Kim Weston

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell. — Kim Weston

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. — Kim Weston

Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera. — Kim Weston

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance. — Kim Weston

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak. — Kim Weston

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else. — Kim Weston

The gallery is generating work for the masses. — Kim Weston

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. — Kim Weston

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

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

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules. — Kim Weston

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself. — Kim Weston

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing. — Kim Weston

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

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created. — Kim Weston

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

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

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

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences. — Kim Weston

I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me. — Kim Weston

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. — Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous. — Kim Weston

I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer. — Kim Weston

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. — Kim Weston

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

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

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. — Kim Weston

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

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera. — Kim Weston

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work. — Kim Weston

The darkroom is just the means to an end. — Kim Weston