Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
EDWARD WESTONArt is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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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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When money enters in – then, for a price, I become a liar – and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.
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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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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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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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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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……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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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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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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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 great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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