Minor White

Students were taught by doing.

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I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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All photographs are self-portraits.

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Photography is a language more universal than words.

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

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One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

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

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The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

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Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

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The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

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We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

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

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If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make…

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Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me…

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If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that…

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There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for…

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Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,…

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The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

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When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only…

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When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each…

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Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of…

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...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force;…

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The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it…

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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can…

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The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times,…

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Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem…

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Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs…

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...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of…

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“To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox…

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

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One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

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To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

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When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to…

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Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating…

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It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they…

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Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence…

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I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So…

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We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for…

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