Best Martin Parr Quotes
- I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. Been
- I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further. Actor
- I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries. Big
- I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next. Awake
- I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes. Catch
- I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up. Cd
- For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to… Aspiring
- I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. Aspect
- I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group. Group
- There are elements of irony in my work, of course. Course
- Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages,… Always Looks
- If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like… Buy
- When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts. All
- My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. Bird
- The idea of England in decline is very attractive. Attractive
- I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me. Go
- I photograph wealth. Photograph
- Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change. All
- In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to… Attracted
- The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it. From
- Taking photos is a form of collecting. Collecting
- When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to… Climb
- Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against. Arts
- One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a… Bigger
- Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth. Disappeared