45 Quotes by Margaret Bourke-White

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or a row of dynamos, it is becoming more and more important to reflect that life that goes on behind these photographs. (1935)

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.