One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. Minor White More Quotes by Minor White More Quotes From Minor White When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. Minor White cameras photography photographer One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is. Minor White photograph doe No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White photography matter long 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 you have captured its essence. Minor White essence attention firsts All photographs are self-portraits. Minor White portraits photographer self I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. Minor White photography photographer practice At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. Minor White photography photographer firsts Photography is a language more universal than words. Minor White language photography photographer Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Minor White photography photographer attention 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. Minor White photography heart travel Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images. Minor White intuition mind trying Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. Minor White cameras photograph photography 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. Minor White photography running mean The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself. Minor White artist discovery mean ...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. Minor White vision mirrors men 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. Minor White photography class thinking When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs. Minor White saws cameras looks ...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. Minor White eye mean children 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 sometimes way moving 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 creativity photography art
