I 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.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
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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 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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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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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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