Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTONGood composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
EDWARD WESTONTo compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
EDWARD WESTONI am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
EDWARD WESTONThere 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.
EDWARD WESTONAnything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.
EDWARD WESTONMy 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.
EDWARD WESTONThe 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.
EDWARD WESTONFor 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.
EDWARD WESTON…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.
EDWARD WESTONI 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.
EDWARD WESTONI 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 WESTONWhy limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
EDWARD WESTONA lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.
EDWARD WESTONI want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
EDWARD WESTONDare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
EDWARD WESTONIs love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.
EDWARD WESTON