All Minor White Quotes
- Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Affirms
- 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… Arrive
- I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. Always Mentally
- When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. Accept
- 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… Any
- We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room. Creativeness
- Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. Action
- Students were taught by doing. Inspirational
- Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. Camera
- The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. Development
- Photography is a language more universal than words. Inspirational
- At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. First Glance
- 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… All
- The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. 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… All
- 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… Affirms
- All photographs are self-portraits. All
- 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… Always Want
- To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye. Either Side
- 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,… Entire
- While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at… Acts
- One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. Inspirational
- Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and… Camera
- The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or… Becomes
- If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself… Burns