Bores Quote by Edward Weston Download Open image “Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.” — Edward Weston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bores Painting Photography Spirit Today
Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. — Brassai Copy Share Image
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way. — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography… — Marcel Duchamp 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
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores. — Geoffrey Madan Copy Share Image
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can… — Jack Gould Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image