Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
EDWARD WESTONI always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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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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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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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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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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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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