Minor White Quotes

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• Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only…
• I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
• When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.
• There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that…
• We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.
• Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
• Students were taught by doing.
• Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
• The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
• Photography is a language more universal than words.
• At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
• If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have…
• The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
• We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as…
• 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 until…
• All photographs are self-portraits.
• It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges…
• To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.
• Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single,…

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