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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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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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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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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“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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…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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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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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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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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Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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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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I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.
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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.
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