Gordon Parks Quotes


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 about the universe. It's capable of doing both. - Gordon Parks


Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. - Gordon Parks


There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know. - Gordon Parks


The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. - Gordon Parks


The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs. - 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. - Gordon Parks


Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to. - Gordon Parks


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 trying to express in a social conscious way. - Gordon Parks


People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. - Gordon Parks


Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. I became devoted to my restlessness. - Gordon Parks


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