To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. — 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 right (or… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
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 Image
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — 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
