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.
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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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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Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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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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“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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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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Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.
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Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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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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……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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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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If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
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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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