This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
EDWARD WESTON…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.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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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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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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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 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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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 see no reason for recording the obvious.
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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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