Quotes by Minor White

Minor White

…innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child – with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

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…insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.

Men

Mirrors

Vision

A very receptive state of mind… not unlike a sheet of film itself – seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second’s exposure conceives a life in it.

Film

Mind

Photographer

All photographs are self-portraits.

Photographer

Portraits

Self

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

Firsts

Photographer

Photography

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

Attention

Photographer

Photography

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Essentials

Pairs

Photographer

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

Dream

Eye

Space

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.

Photography

Responsibility

Skills

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 something in nature says, ‘Come and take my photograph.’ So I do, regardless of how I feel.

Looks

Photographer

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Artist

Attention

Brooms

Cameras

Children

Class

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Dark

Discovery

Doe

Dream

Essence

Essentials

Eye

Fall

Film

Firsts

Fool

Giving

Goal

Grandchildren

Groups

Heart

Inspiration

Intuition

Language

Long

Looks

Matter

Mean

Men

Mind

Mirrors

Moving

Order

Pairs

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

Play

Portraits

Practice

Responsibility

Roles

Rooms

Running

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Quotes by Minor White

Minor White

…innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child – with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

A very receptive state of mind… not unlike a sheet of film itself – seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second’s exposure conceives a life in it.

All photographs are self-portraits.

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

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

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

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 something in nature says, ‘Come and take my photograph.’ So I do, regardless of how I feel.

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