And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, poverty, rightness
Quotes by Gordon Parks
21 quotes by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks - american photographer
Was born on 30 nov 1912.
Died on 07 mar 2006, at 93 years old.
Died on 07 mar 2006, at 93 years old.
Origin country: United States
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Quote by Gordon Parks about talent, fear, failure, fight
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
Quote by Gordon Parks about autumn, past, rightness
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Quote by Gordon Parks about photography
I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.
Quote by Gordon Parks about interest, encouragement
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil along with the evil of racism with a camera.
Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, poverty, fight
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
Quote by Gordon Parks about photography
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
Quote by Gordon Parks about influence, common sense, sense, work, life, people
I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.
Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, people, bad luck, thinking, bad, things
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
Quote by Gordon Parks about time, solitude
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.
Quote by Gordon Parks about people, things, history, time
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.
Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, good, good luck, man
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.
Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, people, world, good, good luck
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
Quote by Gordon Parks about photography
Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent a good part of my early life, up until I was about fifteen or sixteen, in Kansas.
Quote by Gordon Parks about birh, good, good luck, life
You can show with a camera you can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe.
Quote by Gordon Parks about aspiration, hate, things
