117 Quotes by Martin Parr

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.

Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.