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The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
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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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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...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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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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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.
Edward Weston
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
Edward Weston
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
Edward Weston
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
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
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
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
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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
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.
Edward Weston
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
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Edward Weston
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
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Edward Weston
I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.
Edward Weston
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
Edward Weston
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
Edward Weston
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
Edward Weston
