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A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
— Edward Weston
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.
— Edward Weston
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.
— Edward Weston
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
— Edward Weston
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
— Edward Weston
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
— Edward Weston
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
— Edward Weston
Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
— Edward Weston
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
— Edward Weston
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
— Edward Weston
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
— Edward Weston
So called "composition" becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
— Edward Weston
I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!
— Edward Weston
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
— Edward Weston
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
— Edward Weston
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
— Edward Weston
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
— Edward Weston
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
— Edward Weston
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
— Edward Weston
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
— Edward Weston
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
— Edward Weston
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
— Edward Weston
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
— 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
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
— Edward Weston
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
— Edward Weston
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
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
— 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
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
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.
— Edward Weston
Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
— Edward Weston
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
— Edward Weston
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
— Edward Weston
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
— Edward Weston
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
— Edward Weston