Top 35 Martin Parr Quotes

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I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooti

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
Martin Parr
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr
You can easily take photographs at a wedding – no one would question it. But funerals are different.
Martin Parr
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
Martin Parr
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Martin Parr
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
Martin Parr
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
Martin Parr
Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
Martin Parr
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It’s the greatest taboo subject of all.
Martin Parr
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain‘s saving grace.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
Martin Parr
I love curating, because I’m lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.
Martin Parr
When someone says to you, ‘Oh, I don’t take a good picture,’ what they mean is they haven‘t come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it’s just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.
Martin Parr
You can’t shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
Martin Parr
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they’re all in London.
Martin Parr
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
Martin Parr
I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.
Martin Parr
Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you’re trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.
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I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.
Martin Parr
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
Martin Parr
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.
Martin Parr
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It’s whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
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I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
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Taking photos is a form of collecting.
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I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
Martin Parr
I don’t like being flattered. It doesn’t suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
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I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
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I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
Martin Parr
Personally, I don’t take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn’t commissioned. I’ll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that’s what I call a holiday.
Martin Parr
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 y

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
Martin Parr
I would drown in objects if I didn’t have the ability to photograph them.
Martin Parr
Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
Martin Parr
When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
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