Be still with yourself Until the object of your attention Affirms your presence Let the Subject generate its own Composition When the image mirrors the man And the man mirrors the subject Something might take over — 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 Image
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 Image
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Copy Share Image
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis. — 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, same portraits. — 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 photograph was… — Minor White Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Copy Share Image
