Edward Weston Quotes
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
- Edward Weston
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.
- Edward Weston
