To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. Edward Weston More Quotes by Edward Weston More Quotes From Edward Weston Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. Edward Weston photographymenpeople ......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing. Edward Weston compositiontechniqueway The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. Edward Weston understandingimportantphotography ...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models. Edward Weston saladphotographygrace Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life. Edward Weston rockscloudstree 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 inspirationambitionart No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras Edward Weston simplestcamerasphotographer 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 usesightart Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained. Edward Weston never-quitart My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive. Edward Weston eyemindideas To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation. Edward Weston fogrocksessentials 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 learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make. Edward Weston camerastasksimportant The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh. Edward Weston substancesteelphotography An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique. Edward Weston executionexcellenttechnique 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 visioncreativeart Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. Edward Weston photographyspirittoday When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work. Edward Weston supporthateliars I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. Edward Weston approachtheory My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. Edward Weston eyephotographyideas Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. Edward Weston compositionstrongestway
