I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. Margaret Bourke-White More Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White More Quotes From Margaret Bourke-White If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture. Margaret Bourke-White photographywantway You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced. Margaret Bourke-White responsibledonepeople A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic. Margaret Bourke-White goldenmagicphotography Nothing attracts me like a closed door. Margaret Bourke-White closed-doorsdoors Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you. Margaret Bourke-White doorslifeschool The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. Margaret Bourke-White walking-forwarddiscoveryart War makes its own morals. Margaret Bourke-White moralwar I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world. Margaret Bourke-White sleepwritingdoors The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by. Margaret Bourke-White waitingdiscoverymight By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win. Margaret Bourke-White fatephotographywinning Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. Margaret Bourke-White essentialstruthlong My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread. Margaret Bourke-White gardeningweedideas A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share. Margaret Bourke-White intensesharebook Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete. Margaret Bourke-White athletefeelingsjoy I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping. Margaret Bourke-White camerassoulwaiting I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. Margaret Bourke-White photographychoicesmen Work to me is a sacred thing. Margaret Bourke-White sacred-thingssacred I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made. Margaret Bourke-White photographyforgottenmade
