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

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

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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 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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  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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  The great scientist dares to differ from accepted ‘facts’ – think irrationally – let the artist do likewise.

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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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  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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  Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

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  No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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  If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

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  It’s hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

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  This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

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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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