Top 19 Quotes by Gordon Parks

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.