Gordon Parks Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.”

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