Martin Parr Quotes

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.

I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.

Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

I am very romantic. Given a choice, I'd do only romantic films!

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.