Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, โ finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.
Edward WestonNow one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years โ learning โ unlearningโ success โ failure โ dreaming โ thinking โ experience โ back it goes โ farther back than one's ancestors: all this, โ then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make โ "without thought" โ fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, โ given material with as many possibilities.
Edward WestonI 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.
Edward WestonAn excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
Edward Weston