State of mind 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