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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 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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  I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

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

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

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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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  Art is based on order. The world is full of ‘sloppy Bohemians’ and their work betrays them.

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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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  I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

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  I see no reason for recording the obvious.

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

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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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