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Camera Quotes by Gordon Parks
- 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…
- 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…
- You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
- 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 suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my…
- You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate…
- I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
More Camera Quotes
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this… — Christian Bale
- I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
- The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
- The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
- The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other… — John Berger
- I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy… — Anthony Bourdain
- At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I… — Anthony Bourdain
- I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
- I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
- Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
- If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining… — Kobe Bryant