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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

Edward Weston

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.
EDWARD WESTON

Eye Ideas Matter Mind Switch
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
EDWARD WESTON

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

Art Atatined Never Quit
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTON

Car Photography Yards
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
EDWARD WESTON

Lenses Photography Want
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTON

Artist Facts Thinking
It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
EDWARD WESTON

Artist Cameras Telling Truth
When money enters in – then, for a price, I become a liar – and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.
EDWARD WESTON

Hate Liars Support
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
EDWARD WESTON

Photographer Photography Reason
If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
EDWARD WESTON

Cutting Giving Photography
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTON

Looks Photograph Values
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Important Photography Understanding
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
To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism… This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation – not interpretation.
EDWARD WESTON

Essential Fog Rocks
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTON

Composition Strongest Way

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