Minor White Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

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  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

• I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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  Photography, Practice, Photographer

• 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 has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

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  Photography, Thinking, Class

• 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 existed without me.

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  Photography, Running, Mean

• Photography is a language more universal than words.

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  Photography, Photographer, Language

• Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

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  Photography, Attention, Photographer

• No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

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  Photography, Long, Matter

• At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

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  Photography, Firsts, Photographer

• Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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  Photography, Cameras, Photograph

• 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 time enough to expose our hearts.

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  Photography, Travel, Heart

• We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

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  Photography, Dark, Rooms

• Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

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  Photography, Inspiration, Creative

• Students were taught by doing.

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  Photography, Taught, Students

• 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 technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

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  Photography, Responsibility, Skills

• 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 with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

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  Photography, Grandchildren, Wish

• The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

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  Photography, Responsibility, Goal

• The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

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  Photography, Order, Photographer

• 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 a way of life.

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  Photography, Way, Students

• 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 because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.

  Minor White

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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