Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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“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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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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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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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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