Edward Weston Quotes - Page 3

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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

  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

  Edward Weston

  Intellectual, Negative, Subjects

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.103, Getty Publications

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• Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Today, Spirit

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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.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Eye, Ideas

  "Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing" by Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor, (p. 75), 1978.

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• 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

  Photography, Vision, Patterns

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

  Edward Weston

  Artist, Cameras, Telling The Truth

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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.

  Edward Weston

  Men, Cameras, Facts

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

  Edward Weston

  Looks, Photograph, Values

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

  Edward Weston

  Glasses, Might, Photographer

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• 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

  Reality, Fusion, Revolution

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• Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

  Edward Weston

  Way, Makers, Results

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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

  Photography, Strong, Records

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• Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Film, Process

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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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"."

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Lying, Artist

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• 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

  Photography, Matter, Cameras

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• 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

  Art, Upheaval, Photographer

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell, David Featherstone, Robert Adams (1986). “EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston”

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• I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

  Edward Weston

  Long, Care, Baths

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