All photography is propaganda.

- Martin Parr

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

- Martin Parr

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

- Martin Parr

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

- Martin Parr

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

- Martin Parr

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirk…

- 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 g…

- Martin Parr

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local su…

- Martin Parr

To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked…

- Martin Parr