A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
EDWARD WESTONA lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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 WESTON“Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed “artists”.”
EDWARD WESTONThe 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.
EDWARD WESTONMy true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
EDWARD WESTON…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.
EDWARD WESTONResults alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
EDWARD WESTONAnything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTONI see no reason for recording the obvious.
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 WESTONNo photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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 WESTONTo compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
EDWARD WESTONA photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTONIt’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
EDWARD WESTONThere 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.
EDWARD WESTON