Edward Weston Short Quotes

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The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Edward Weston
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

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Everything in the West is on a grander scale, more intense, vital, dramatic.

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

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

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

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

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

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My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

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

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I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

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

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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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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

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

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I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

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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.

Edward Weston