Gordon Parks Quotes

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

My close-up was magnificent!

I like to know where the camera is.

I've been working with photography for many years.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I don't really know how to work a camera.

I love taking pictures. I'm always the one with the camera!

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

I know about photography - I'm really good at it.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

I take a lot of pictures.