The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

- Edward Weston

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

- Edward Weston

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

- Edward Weston

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

- Edward Weston

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

- Edward Weston

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

- Edward Weston

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 the better.

- Edward Weston

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

- Edward Weston

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

- Edward Weston