Receptive State Quotes 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…

— 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,…

— Minor White

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

— Minor White

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Minor White

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— 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…

— Minor White

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White