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Top 25 Margaret Bourke-White Quotes (2025 Update)

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.”

1. “Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Nothing attracts me like a closed door.”

2. “Nothing attracts me like a closed door.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.”

3. “Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “The beauty of the past belongs to the past.”

4. “The beauty of the past belongs to the past.”

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Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.”

6. “A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.”

7. “The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.”

8. “If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Work to me is a sacred thing.”

9. “Work to me is a sacred thing.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.”

10. “We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”

11. “The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.”

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

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.”

13. “A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.”

15. “Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.”

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

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.”

17. “Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.”

18. “Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.”

19. “I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “Even while you’re in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.”

21. “Even while you’re in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.”

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

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.”

23. “I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.”

24. “I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.”

25. “My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “If anyone gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational. I’m never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.”

26. “If anyone gets in my way when I’m making a picture, I become irrational. I’m never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.”

27. “I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White Quote: “War makes its own morals.”

28. “War makes its own morals.”

— Margaret Bourke-White

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