Edward Weston Quotes about Art

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Edward Weston

Art, Creative, Vision

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 said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

Edward Weston

Photography, Art, Creativity

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 be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

Edward Weston

Art, Inspiration, Ambition

Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

Edward Weston

Art, Sight, Use

Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

Edward Weston

Art, Order, World

Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

Edward Weston

Art, Never Quit

Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.

Edward Weston

Photography, Art, Believe

Edward Weston (1971). “Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters”

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 record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

Edward Weston

Photography, Art, Opportunity

"The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California".

Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.

Edward Weston

Art, Upheaval, Photographer

Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell, David Featherstone, Robert Adams (1986). “EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston”