When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then… — Minor White Approach 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Action Copy Share Image
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis. — Minor White Active 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 Accused 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 Enough 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… — Minor White Blades 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 Buttons 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… — Minor White Essentials Copy Share Image
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. — Minor White Cameras 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 Education Copy Share Image
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Firsts Copy Share Image
A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction… — Minor White Cinema Copy Share Image
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. — Minor White Accepting 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 Degrees Copy Share Image
To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. — Minor White Eye 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 Cameras 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 Art 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 Cameras Copy Share Image
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 Art 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 Cameras Copy Share Image
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they… — Minor White Curious 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 Cameras 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 Art Copy Share Image
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White Development Copy Share Image
