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I see no reason for recording the obvious.

Edward Weston

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment… only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
EDWARD WESTON

Photography Records Strong
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
EDWARD WESTON

Mean Photographer Photography
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTON

Art Atatined Never Quit
……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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Composition Technique Way
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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Makers Results Way
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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Artist Facts Thinking
For the obvious reason that nature – unadulterated and unimproved by man – is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.
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Arrangement Cameras Facts Lack Men
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Clouds Interdepend Rocks Tree
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
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Important Photography Understanding
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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Lenses Photography Want
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
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Photographer Photography Program
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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Bother Faults Lifetime
…the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
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Grace Photography Salad
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTON

Photographer Photography Reason
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTON

Composition Strongest Way

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