"The man at Kodak told me the shots……" — Gordon Parks
"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
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36 Quotes by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks has 36 quotes on this site.
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And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
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And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard…
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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
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I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe:…
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Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was…
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Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a…
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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure,…
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I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I…
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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion,…
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But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have…
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Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long…
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If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
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More Exhibition Quotes
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
— P T Barnum
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
— Harry Vardon
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
— Alistair Cooke
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
— Tertullian
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Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity…
— H. Burke Peterson
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
— Robert Fulton
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I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.
— Richard Serra
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...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or…
— Peter Lesley
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I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition,…
— Bob Lilly
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That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was…
— Dennis Miller
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless…
— John T. Flynn
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