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Photograph Quotes by Minor White
- 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…
- Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
- When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I…
- Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no…
- One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
- Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.
- When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a…
- I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that…
More Photograph Quotes
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- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams