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

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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

Brett Weston

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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