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Minor White Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

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

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



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



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.

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.





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