"You know, the camera is not meant just…" — Gordon Parks

"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."

— Gordon Parks

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36 Quotes by Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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:…
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was…
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a…
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure,…
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I…
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion,…
But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have…
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long…
If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — 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… — John Berger
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — 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… — Kobe Bryant

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