Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTONGood composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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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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……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 am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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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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Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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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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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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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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 great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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