Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
EDWARD WESTONFor 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.
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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……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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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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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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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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