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Photography Quotes by Minor White
- 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…
- 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…
- Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born…
- No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
More Photography Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — 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
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — 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
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams