The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself. — Minor White Copy Share Image
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. — Minor White Copy Share Image
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Copy Share Image
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. — Minor White Copy Share Image
To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. — Minor White Copy Share Image
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. — Minor White Copy Share Image
If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that… — Minor White Copy Share Image
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make… — Minor White Copy Share Image
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for… — Minor White Copy Share Image
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of… — Minor White Copy Share Image
...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force;… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem… — Minor White Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox… — Minor White Copy Share Image
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Copy Share Image
We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room. — Minor White Copy Share Image
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence… — Minor White Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to… — Minor White Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each… — Minor White Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film,… — Minor White Copy Share
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Copy Share
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis. — Minor White Copy Share
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits. — Minor White Copy Share
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was… — Minor White Copy Share
Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out. — Minor White Copy Share
Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or… — Minor White Copy Share
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its… — Minor White Copy Share
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography… — Minor White Copy Share
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Copy Share
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a… — Minor White Copy Share
...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant… — Minor White Copy Share
