Doe Quote by Minor White Download Open image “One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.” — Minor White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Inspirational Love Photograph Photography
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. — Minor White Copy Share Image
The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something. — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning. — James Welling Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Copy Share Image
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits. — Minor White Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out. — Minor White Copy Share Image
Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its… — Minor White Copy Share Image
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography… — Minor White Copy Share Image
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
