Minor White Quotes

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

Minor White

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• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Alone
  • Desire
  • Moment

• The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Age
  • Photography

• I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Information
  • Photography

• 'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'

  

  Banksy
  • Pretty
  • Progress
  • Painting

• Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

  

  Berenice Abbott
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Photography

• I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Movie
  • Photography

• I just love the world of photography.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • World
  • Photography

• Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Life
  • Photography

• I first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and enjoying Africa's wildlife.

  

  Laurent Baheux
  • Sports
  • Photography

• I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

  

  James Nachtwey
  • People
  • Service
  • Photography

• If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Photography

• I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

  

  Matthew Modine
  • Romantic
  • Photography

• I really respect fashion, but I don't follow trends to be honest, I'm much more into skateboarder style clothes, but I really like fashion photography, portraits, and stuff like that.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • Respect
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

  

  Edward Weston
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Perfect

• It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

  

  David Bailey
  • Good
  • Imagination
  • Photography

• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  

  John Sexton
  • Moments
  • Magic
  • Photography

• In the 1950's there was a kind of agreement that a good artist would do something in his picture that acknowledge the edge, but it was a question of doing something when you got to the edge. Cropping was something new. It came from photography and from w:Clement Greenberg. It was resisted as being too easy.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Good
  • Question
  • Picture

• I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Cameras

• I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Giving

• Stunts are my favourite - I love it: the feeling, the adrenaline when all the cameras are rolling and everyone is watching and crowd round.

  

  Hannah John-Kamen
  • Feeling
  • Cameras
  • Adrenaline

• I anticipated we would go to college, and then we would fade out - that was kind of what we wanted at the time - but social media hung onto my brother and I, and thankfully, fans hung onto my brother and I, and I think it's one of the reasons that this reemergence can come back with a little more strength, and I'm very thankful for that.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Time
  • College
  • Brother

• I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Velvet Underground
  • Changed Things

• My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Movies
  • Place
  • Video Games

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

  

  Minor White
  • Photography
  • Accepting
  • Cameras