My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
EDWARD WESTONClouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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I 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.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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