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.
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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…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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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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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.
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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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“Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed “artists”.”
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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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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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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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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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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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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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