The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
EDWARD WESTONResults alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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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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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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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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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
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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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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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……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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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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Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
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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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