Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
EDWARD WESTONResults alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
EDWARD WESTONWhen 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.
EDWARD WESTONArt is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
EDWARD WESTONDare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
EDWARD WESTONThe 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.
EDWARD WESTONIf I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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.
EDWARD WESTONI am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
EDWARD WESTONThe 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.
EDWARD WESTONA photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTONClouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
EDWARD WESTONI want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
EDWARD WESTONIt’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
EDWARD WESTONTo 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.
EDWARD WESTONNo photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
EDWARD WESTONWhy limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
EDWARD WESTON