Bruce Weber Quotes

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

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

As a kid, I drew comics. I had curly hair. I liked to joke, but I was kind of nervous about it at first until it was coaxed out of me.

Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because he was so shy. He'd break the ice by taking pictures.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I will preach with my brush.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.