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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

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Edward Weston
Age: 71 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1958
Died: January 1
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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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To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.
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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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The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
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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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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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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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To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.
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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
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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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My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
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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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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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I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
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