……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTONA lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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For the obvious reason that nature – unadulterated and unimproved by man – is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.
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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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Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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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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This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
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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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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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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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