Edward Weston Quotes About Composition

Quotes about: Composition

• 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

• When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Vision, Patterns

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

• 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.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Art, Opportunity

  "The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

• Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

  Edward Weston

  Way, Strongest, Composition

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

  Edward Weston

  Technique, Way, Composition

  Edward Weston (1961). “Daybooks”

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