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Edward Weston - From the Advice category:
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts... (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Artists category:
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Beauty category:
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Competition category:
- The Flame of Recognition...
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. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Composition category:
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Courage category:
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Creativity category:
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him... To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Deception category:
- On Photography by Susan Sontag...
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.' (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Experiments category:
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)
Edward Weston - From the Greatness category:
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)
Edward Weston - From the Ideas category:
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus... (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Importance category:
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Interest category:
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead! (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Interpretation category:
Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Light category:
...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)
Edward Weston - From the Love category:
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained? (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Mediums category:
Man is the actual medium of expression - not the tool he elects to use as a means. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Mediums category:
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Models category:
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the 'human figure divine' but minus the imperfections. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Modernism category:
-The Friends of Photography, 1986...
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Money category:
-Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston by Beaumont Newhall...
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. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Music category:
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach holds up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Nature category:
-Random Notes on Photography, 1922...
...for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement... (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Nudes category:
-diary, 1926, Views on nudes by Bill Jay...
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Observation category:
-The Daybooks of Edward Weston...
I see no reason for recording the obvious. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Painting category:
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Painting category:
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Photography category:
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Plein-Air category:
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Possessions category:
-The Daybooks of Edward Weston...
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. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Questions category:
-on photography...
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have such an opportunity to extend your vision? (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Repetition category:
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)
Edward Weston - From the Rules category:
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Seeing category:
-Pictures on a page...
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. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Spectator category:
To the extent that the completed work realizes depth of understanding, uniqueness of viewpoint and vitality of presentation, will the spectator respond and participate in the original experience. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Subject category:
It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of 'social significance' when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Theory category:
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Thinking category:
-The Best of Popular Photography by Harvey V. Fondiller...
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this - then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment. So I can make 'without thought'... But there is all the eyes have seen in this life to influence me. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Time category:
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. (Edward Weston)
Edward Weston - From the Work category:
-Shall I Turn Professional? American Photography, 1912...
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it may be. (Edward Weston)
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