Norman Parkinson famous quotes
07-17-2025
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The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera
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I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
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A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.
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The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
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I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
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I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.
-- Norman Parkinson
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
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Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!
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Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
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I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
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