My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. - Edward Weston

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But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

Edward Weston

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

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

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

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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.

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The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

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Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

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To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

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I felt like Twitter was more of a place for people to just socialize instead of promoting. After I got off, I realized I could have used that energy and that lane to really promote some positivity. I had 35,000 followers before I left. I was like, "Damn those were 30,000 consumers. " It kind of twisted my whole thought process so I got back on. I realized that I have a voice that people wanted to hear.

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