Minor White Photography Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Photography is a language more universal than words.

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

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#4. 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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#5. First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition - isn't.

T. Colin Campbell

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

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#7. The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Winston Churchill

#8. We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

Brian Aldiss

#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#12. I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Michael Faraday

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

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#14. 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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#15. Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

B.K.S. Iyengar

#16. I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

Maria Bamford

#17. He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Stanislaw Ulam

#18. Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

Charles Dickens

#19. 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.

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#20. If you have one of the worst schools in the city, then chances are the teachers are not going to care for you. Chances are the parents don't feel seriously about coming to meet with teachers.

Bill Cosby

#21. I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

Roger Ailes

#22. Students were taught by doing.

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#23. The healing power lies in the encounter with sensitive people; it makes life worth living.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#24. These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Rabindranath Tagore

#25. Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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#26. There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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#28. Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Patanjali