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Top 30 Minor White Quotes (2025 Update)

Minor White Quote: “Photography is a language more universal than words.”

1. “Photography is a language more universal than words.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.”

2. “One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.”

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Minor White Quote: “At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.”

3. “At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.”

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Minor White Quote: “Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”

4. “Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “Sometimes we work so fast that we don’t really understand what’s going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, ‘Oh my God, it’s significant!’ and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.”

5. “Sometimes we work so fast that we don’t really understand what’s going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, ‘Oh my God, it’s significant!’ and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “All photographs are self-portraits.”

6. “All photographs are self-portraits.”

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Minor White Quote: “When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.”

7. “When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.”

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Minor White Quote: “Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.”

8. “Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.”

9. “When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.”

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Minor White Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.”

11. “We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.”

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Minor White Quote: “Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.”

12. “Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.”

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Minor White Quote: “Students were taught by doing.”

13. “Students were taught by doing.”

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Minor White Quote: “No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”

14. “No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.”

15. “If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Minor White Quote: “When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.”

17. “When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.”

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Minor White Quote: “There’s no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I’m always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don’t give a damn how it got made.”

18. “There’s no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I’m always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don’t give a damn how it got made.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say – himself.”

19. “The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say – himself.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass – sometimes I’ve seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.”

20. “Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass – sometimes I’ve seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.”

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Minor White Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Minor White Quote: “To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.”

22. “To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.”

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Minor White Quote: “I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.”

23. “I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.”

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Minor White Quote: “Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.”

24. “Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.”

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Minor White Quote: “In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order – synthesis overshadows analysis.”

25. “In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order – synthesis overshadows analysis.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.”

26. “The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.”

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Minor White Quote: “The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one’s own pictures is an overall goal.”

27. “The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one’s own pictures is an overall goal.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.”

28. “It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.”

29. “Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.”

— Minor White

Minor White Quote: “We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.”

30. “We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.”

— Minor White

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