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Gordon Parks

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

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Donna Grant

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

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Donna Grant

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

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Donna Grant

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

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Donna Grant

"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."

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Donna Grant

"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

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Donna Grant

"I've got a great collection of photography."

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Donna Grant

"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality."

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Donna Grant

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."

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Donna Grant

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."

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Donna Grant

"I've been working with photography for many years."

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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."

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Gordon Parks
"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."

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Gordon Parks
"The 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."

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

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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."

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