Minor White Quotes

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

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• If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

  

  Banksy
  • Art
  • Know
  • Trust

• More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Place
  • More

• If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• 'And we jolly green giants cuz we smoke so much broccoli'

  

  Ludacris
  • Green

• Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Kids
  • Animal

• I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Inspiration
  • Chicago

• Most germs aren't bad. You're in a microbial environment all the time.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Environment

• I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.

  

  Jason Day
  • Up
  • Good

• Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.

  

  Future
  • Fashion

• One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Life
  • Family
  • Experience

• But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Money
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.

  

  Daniel Okrent
  • Opinion

• Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Truth
  • Guy

• Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • People
  • God

• Accurate graphics are key to clear communication of scientific results to other researchers and the public — an issue that is becoming ever more important

  

  Ed Hawkins
  • Communication
  • Results
  • Graphics

• Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Literature
  • Liberty

• Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Transformation

• When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Worry

• I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

  

  Minor White
  • Practice
  • Photography