51 Quotes by Minor White

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

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.

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.

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

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.

Students were taught by doing.

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.

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.