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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

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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
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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.
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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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No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
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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.
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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.
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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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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.
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Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
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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.
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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
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Results alone should be appraised the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
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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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I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
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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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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
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