Composition Quote by Edward Weston

“......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.”

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I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

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for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

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Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years —…

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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…

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Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or…

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An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

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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…

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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

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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…

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