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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.

Edward Weston

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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Bother Faults Lifetime
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Clouds Interdepend Rocks Tree
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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Artist Facts Thinking
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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Form Pulse Reason
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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Amazed Interest Reason
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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Mean Photographer Photography
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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Photographer Photography Program
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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Approach Theory
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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Hard Work Matter Photography
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Cameras Photographer Simplest
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Composition Strongest Way
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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Essential Fog Rocks
Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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Art Order World
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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Eye Opportunity Vision
…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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Grace Photography Salad
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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Makers Results Way

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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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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