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 WESTONIf I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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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.
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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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……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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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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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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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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 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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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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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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