I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.
Gordon ParksI feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.
Gordon ParksUse anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
Gordon ParksThe photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.
Gordon Parks