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

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

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

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

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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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  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 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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  No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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  Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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

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  A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others.

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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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  Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

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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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  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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  …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 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 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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  My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

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