Martin Parr Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.”

“Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.”

“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.”

“You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.”

“Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.”

“Dictators are interesting, no?”

“I photograph wealth.”

“I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.”

“Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.”

“My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.”