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Photography Quotes by Edward Weston
- Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
- The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
- My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
- If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
- Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.
- I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on…
- My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
- Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that…
- I see no reason for recording the obvious.
- The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to…
- Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished…
- To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
- Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
- When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to…
- The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished…
- "Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach…
- The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel…
- I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work.…
- I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
- The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding…
- 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…
- This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.
- It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a…
- The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be…
- ...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…
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- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams