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Something Quotes by Minor White
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself…
- One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
- 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…
- Be still with yourself Until the object of your attention Affirms your presence Let the Subject generate its own Composition When the image mirrors the…
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes