I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? - Edward Weston
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
- Edward Weston
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. - Edward Weston
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
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
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing. - Edward Weston
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. - Edward Weston
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitati… - Edward Weston
I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitati…
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 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.
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others. - Edward Weston
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
I see no reason for recording the obvious. - Edward Weston
I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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