Top 35 Margaret Bourke-White Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.
Margaret Bourke-White
#4. "Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
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#5. 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.
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#6. Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.
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#10. 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.
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#11. The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.
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#12. The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs ...
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#14. Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.
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#15. To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.
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#17. A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time ... Everything was touched with magic.
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#18. I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
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#19. You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.
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#20. Utter truth is essential ... and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.
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#21. If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.
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#22. The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.
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#23. 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.
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#24. As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights ... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.
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#25. I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
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#27. Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.
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#28. A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.
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#29. 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.
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#31. Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.
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#32. We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.
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#35. It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more important to reflect that life that goes on behind these photographs. (1935)
Margaret Bourke-White
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