Trent Parke quotes

Trent Parke quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.”
-- Trent Parke

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“I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.”
-- Trent Parke

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“How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."”
“The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.”
“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”
“Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
“You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.”
“I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
“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.”
“To justify God's ways to man.”
“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

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