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There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Edward Weston

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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
Archer
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Highland Park
Illinois
Edward Henry Weston
Edward H. Weston
Eric Weston
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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 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.
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I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
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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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When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.
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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
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...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.
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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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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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Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
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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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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
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...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.
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