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> [Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/be-still-with-yourself-until-the-object-of-your-attention-affirms/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

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## More by Minor White

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/when-you-approach-something-to-photograph-it-first-be-still-with/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/often-while-traveling-with-a-camera-we-arrive-just-as-the-sun-slips/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/reaching-a-creative-state-of-mind-thru-positive-action-is-considered/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/in-putting-images-together-i-become-active-and-excitement-is-of/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/photographers-who-come-up-with-power-never-get-accused-of-imitating/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/when-i-looked-at-things-for-what-they-are-i-was-fool-enough-to/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/watching-the-way-the-current-moves-a-blade-of-grass-sometimes-i-ve/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/different-levels-of-photography-require-different-levels-of/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/before-he-has-seen-the-whole-how-unusually-perceptive-and-imaginative/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/let-the-subject-generate-its-own-photographs-become-a-camera/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/we-could-teach-photography-as-a-way-to-make-a-living-and-best-of-all/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/at-first-glance-a-photograph-can-inform-us-at-second-glance-it-can/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/a-very-receptive-state-of-mind-not-unlike-a-sheet-of-film-itself/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/when-gifts-are-given-to-me-through-my-camera-i-accept-them-graciously/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

> [...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/minor-white/insight-vision-moments-of-revelation-during-those-rare-moments/)

[Minor White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/minor-white/)

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