Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTONIt’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
More Edward Weston Quotes
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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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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer’s understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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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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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
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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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…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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I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
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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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