Essentials Quotes by 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

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

for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

— Edward Weston

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

— Edward Weston

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

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

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

— Edward Weston

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

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

— 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…

— Edward Weston

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— 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