Gordon Parks Quotes

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• And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
• And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and…
• Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could…
• Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
• Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
• At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me…
• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I…
• So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was…
• But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted…
• Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I…
• If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
• You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
• I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I…
• I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.
• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
• The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
• I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.
• I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my…
• I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What…

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