97 Quotes by Edward Weston

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

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

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras

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 hesitation nor calculation.

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.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.