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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

…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.

Edward Weston

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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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  No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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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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  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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  If I have any ‘message’ worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

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  A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

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  Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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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 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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  …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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  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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  Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

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  Dare to be irrational! – keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

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  Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.

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  Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.

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  I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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