Edward Weston Quotes

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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.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Rocks, Looks

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Creative, Vision

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• Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

  Edward Weston

  Way, Strongest, Composition

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• Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Law, Littles

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• The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Squirrels, Long

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

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Car, Yards

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

  Edward Weston

  Courage, Fluid, Dare

  Edward Weston (1988). “Edward Weston”

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

  Edward Weston

  Eye, Opportunity, Vision

  Edward Weston (1973). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Cutting, Giving

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

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Eye, Cameras

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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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.

  Edward Weston

  Artist, Photographer, Dare

  Edward Weston (1971). “Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters”

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• For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Perfection, Important

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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

  Pulse, Reason, Form

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• I see no reason for recording the obvious.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Photographer, Reason

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Mean, Photographer

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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

  Edward Weston

  Theory, Approach

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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

  Edward Weston

  Faults, Lifetime, Bother

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Men, People

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• The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

  Edward Weston

  Important, Cameras, Tasks

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• As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Inspiration, Ambition

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Photographer, Program

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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.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Hard Work, Matter

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Moving, Knowing

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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