Quotes About White
- "I think that if I were asked to name the most subtle and refined master photography has produced, that I would name him... To be a true artist in photography one must also be an artist in life, and Clarence H. White was such an artist." Alvin Langdon Coburn
- "What he brought to photography was an extraordinary sense of light. The Orchard is bathed in light. The Edge of the Woods is a tour de force of the absence of light." Beaumont Newhall
- "Clarence White's poetic vision and sensitive intuition produced images that insinuate themselves deeply into one's consciousness." Edward Steichen
- “Anyone who came under his influence never got over it.” Stella Simon, a White School alumnus and prominent photographer
- "To Clarence H. White, one of the very few who understand what the Photo-Session means & is." Inscription in a collection of Photo-Session memorabilia presented to White by Alfred Stieglitz
- "The man was a good teacher, a great teacher, and I can still occasionally think "I wish he were around. I'd like to show him this.' Isn't that odd, that that stays with you?" Dorothea Lange
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