……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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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Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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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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“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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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 see no reason for recording the obvious.
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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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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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 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 great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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