Artistic Quote by Edward Weston

I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking.…

— Wardell Milan

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

— John Trumbull

I am not afraid to experiment - sometimes going beyond what is traditionally beautiful is what makes a great picture.

— Sasha Pivovarova

Simplicate, and add lightness!

— William Bushnell Stout

Simplicate and add more lightness.

— Bill Stout

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty…

— Raoul Hausmann

We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique,…

— Piet Zwart

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

— Josef Albers

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

— August Sander

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

“Magritte’s painting The Human Condition. The real-world 3-D scene and the 2-D painting on the canvas create the same pattern of light at the…

— Brian J Rogers

I fuse light and shadow with aperture; I freeze a moment with speed; I let the unseen seen, the seen unseen with angles; I…

— Ony Ony