Gordon Parks

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#enthusiasm #habits #life #life

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

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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. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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

— Gordon Parks

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

— Gordon Parks

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

— Gordon Parks

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

— Gordon Parks

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

— Gordon Parks

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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

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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

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