I have been photographing our ...

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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 Edward Weston

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Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
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 Edward Weston
...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.
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 Edward Weston
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
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 Edward Weston
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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 Edward Weston
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
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 Edward Weston