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19 quotes by Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director. He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.
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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... →

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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, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might... →

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

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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... →

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I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

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And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

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

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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.

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I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

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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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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was... →

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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.

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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... →

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