Quotes by Edward Weston

Edward Weston

……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

Composition

Technique

Way

…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.

Grace

Photography

Salad

…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.

Eye

Light

Lying

“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”.”

Artist

Lying

Photography

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

Bother

Faults

Lifetime

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

Looks

Photograph

Values

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

Excellent

Execution

Technique

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

Car

Photography

Yards

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

Matter

Photographer

Photography

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

Art

Opportunity

Photography

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Baths

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Courage

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Creativity

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Cutting

Dare

Dream

Essentials

Excellent

Execution

Exposure

Extraordinary Beauty

Eye

Facts

Faults

Film

Fluid

Fog

Form

Fusion

Giving

Glasses

Grace

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Hate

Home

Ideas

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Interest

Knowing

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Quotes by Edward Weston

Edward Weston

……so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

…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.

…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.

“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”.”

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

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

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

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

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

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

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