Quotes by Edward Weston

“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the cameras eye may entirely change my idea.”

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

“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.”

“I see no reason for recording the obvious.”

“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.”

“Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection...”

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the cameras eye may entirely change my idea.