The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
Minor WhiteIt 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...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.
Minor WhiteNo matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Minor WhiteThe photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.
Minor WhiteThe reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which he has never been quite the same.
Minor White