A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTONA photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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…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.
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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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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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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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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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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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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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