Margaret Bourke-White famous quotes

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

#Ties #Together #Typical

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

#Purpose #Burning #Helping

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography #Cameras #Essentials

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

#Work #Desert #Lifelong

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography #Opportunity #Perfect

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Beauty #Past

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

#Photography #Men #Giving

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

#Photography #Want #Way

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

#Rushing #Secret #Events

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

#Photography #Hands #Cameras

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

#Sight #Understanding #Quests

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

#Fear Nothing #Fear Not

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

#Book #Intense #Share

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-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Creativity #Vacation #Community

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

#Men #Thinking #Excellence

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Doors #Closed Doors

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography #Hurt #Writing

War makes its own morals.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#War #Moral

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

#Weed #Ideas #Gardening

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography #Magic #Golden

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Self #Rushing #Serenity

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

#Writing #Sleep #Doors

Work to me is a sacred thing.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Sacred

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography #Forgotten #Made

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

#Doors #Cameras #Closed Doors

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

#People #Done #Responsible

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

#Life #School #Doors

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

#Photography #World #Sometimes

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

#Gains #Made #Insight

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

#Photography #Fate #Winning

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

#Photography #Men #Choices

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. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography #Memories #Eye

Utter truth is essential...andto get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Truth #Long #Essentials

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

#Discovery #Important #World

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.
-- Margaret Bourke-White

#Discovery #Waiting #World