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All Edward Weston Quotes Art Composition Photography quotes Vision
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Edward Weston
Photography, Eye, Ideas
"Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing" by Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor, (p. 75), 1978.

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".

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

Edward Weston
Photography, Today, Spirit

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

Edward Weston
Photography, Thinking, People

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Edward Weston
Photography, Strong, Records

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

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

"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

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

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

Edward Weston
Photography, Matter, Cameras
Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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