Gordon Parks Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

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

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Important, Matter

• You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Powerful, Gun

• 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

  Photography, Doors, People

• 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 sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Years, Europe

• I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Children, Thinking

• Photography was my choice of weapons.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Choices, Weapons

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