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Subjects Quotes by 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 that…
- To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
- 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 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…
- 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 learning…
- My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to…
- Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
More Subjects Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.… — Michael D. Barnes
- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
- All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps,… — Mario Batali