This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock,… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print. — Edward Weston Copy Share
Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the… — Edward Weston Copy Share
for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is… — Edward Weston Copy Share
Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years —… — Edward Weston Copy Share
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is… — Edward Weston Copy Share
…so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. — Edward Weston Copy Share
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or… — Edward Weston Copy Share
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. — Edward Weston Copy Share
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… — Edward Weston Copy Share
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston Copy Share
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston Copy Share
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may… — Edward Weston Copy Share
I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form… — Edward Weston Copy Share
Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker. — Edward Weston Copy Share
