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Minor White quotes: Photography is a language more universal than words.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

Minor White quotes: If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. ... A gnawing burns inside ... to make something of myself worth giving.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. ... A gnawing burns inside ... to make something of myself worth giving.

Minor White quotes: One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

Minor White quotes: At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

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

Minor White quotes: Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

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

Minor White quotes: I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

Minor White quotes: In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

Minor White quotes: To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

Minor White quotes: 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.

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 quotes: When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

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

Minor White quotes: Students were taught by doing.

Students were taught by doing.

Minor White quotes: Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

Minor White quotes: One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

Minor White quotes: The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

Minor White quotes: The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

Minor White quotes: We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

Minor White quotes: The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

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

Minor White quotes: All photographs are self-portraits.

All photographs are self-portraits.

Minor White quotes: When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

Minor White quotes: No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.