97 Quotes by Edward Weston

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.

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

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn’t photogenic.

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

For photography is a way to capture the moment – not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest – that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

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.

Is love like art – something always ahead, never quite attained.

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.

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