Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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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If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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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 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.
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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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Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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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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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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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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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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“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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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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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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