Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
EDWARD WESTONA lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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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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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.
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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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