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-WhiteRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of discovery and the desire for new experiences.
Margaret Bourke-White highlights the critical role that discovery plays in her life and work. She expresses a need for continuous stimulation and change, suggesting that moving from one new experience to another is essential for personal and creative growth. This perspective encourages embracing the unknown and the unfamiliar, viewing them as opportunities for learning and inspiration.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing change.
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.
If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
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.
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.
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting.
No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.
I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.
What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty?
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