Martin Parr Quotes

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I've photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.

Image has become everything.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.

It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.