Kim Weston Quotes
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Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.
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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.
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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.
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I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
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I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
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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.
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Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.
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Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.
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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.
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I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.
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The darkroom is just the means to an end.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.
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In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
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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.
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We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.
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Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
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I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
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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.
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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.
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The gallery is generating work for the masses.
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A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.