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
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • 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

• '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

• All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Men
  • Art
  • Nature

• Love can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

  

  Annette Messager
  • Love
  • Photography
  • Tenderness

• A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Truth
  • Action
  • Explanation

• When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Good
  • Running
  • Stop

• People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Helping
  • Achieve

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

  

  Minor White
  • Photography
  • Accepting
  • Cameras