Author Name

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.

Author : Gordon Parks

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.

Author : Gordon Parks

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

Author : Gordon Parks

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.

Author : Gordon Parks

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Author : Gordon Parks

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930’s and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

Author : Gordon Parks

I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Author : Gordon Parks

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, ’41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

Author : Gordon Parks

I saw that the people who made it in this world were the ones who got up every time they were knocked down.

Author : Gordon Parks

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

Author : Gordon Parks