…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.
EDWARD WESTONTo 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.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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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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……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 have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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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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It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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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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…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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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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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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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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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