black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Edward Weston

To 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 WESTON

Essential Fog Rocks
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
EDWARD WESTON

Looks Photograph Values
…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

Grace Photography Salad
Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTON

Art Atatined Never Quit
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
EDWARD WESTON

Hard Work Matter Photography
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Form Pulse Reason
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTON

Composition Strongest Way
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
EDWARD WESTON

Cameras Photographer Simplest
Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
EDWARD WESTON

Courage Dare Fluid
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.
EDWARD WESTON

Hate Liars Support
……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTON

Composition Technique Way
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
EDWARD WESTON

Photographer Photography Program
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
EDWARD WESTON

Bother Faults Lifetime
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
EDWARD WESTON

Approach Theory
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTON

Car Photography Yards
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
EDWARD WESTON

Amazed Interest Reason

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edward Weston Quotes