…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 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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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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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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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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It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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I was extravagant in the matter of cameras – anything photographic – I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest – or without.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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