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.

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!!

Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Every invalid is a physician.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.