Martin Parr Quotes

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.