I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them. (Gordon Parks)
Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to. (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. (Gordon Parks)
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. (Gordon Parks)
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. (Gordon Parks)
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. (Gordon Parks)
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. (Gordon Parks)
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. (Gordon Parks)
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. (Gordon Parks)
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. (Gordon Parks)
That was my first day in Washington, D.C., in 1942. I had experienced a kind of bigotry and discrimination here that I never expected to experience. (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. (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. (Gordon Parks)
I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it. (Gordon Parks)
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. (Gordon Parks)