This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
EDWARD WESTON“Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed “artists”.”
More Edward Weston Quotes
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The painters have no copyright on modern art!… I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be – compared to painting – it has different means and aims.
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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.
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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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…through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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“Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed “artists”.”
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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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