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
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. — 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
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
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
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
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can… — 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
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
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 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
