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.
EDWARD WESTONGood composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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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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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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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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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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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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…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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It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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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