A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
EDWARD WESTONI want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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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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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Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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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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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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