Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTONPhotography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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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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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 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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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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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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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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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Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.
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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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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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