M.R. Weston Quotes
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.
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.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.
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.
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.
Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.
You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.
...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.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.
I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.
