Larry Clark Quotes

#1. I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

Buzz Osborne

#2. I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films.

Jody Hill

#3. I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s, taking pictures and skating with us.

Leo Fitzpatrick

#4. You have shown me love, and given me so much love. I don't know how to repay you. But one thing I am sure of, I do really love you.

Alon Calinao Dy

#5. By far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others,

Larry McMurtry

#6. Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

Anita Diamant

#7. The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make ... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

Larry Clark

#8. At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

Larry Clark

#9. I've wanted to make a film about French youth since I went to Cannes with my first film 'Kids' in 1995 ... Scribe's screenplay is about French kids today, and the world today. Just like my films 'Kids' and 'Ken Park', this will be a movie like you have never seen before.

Larry Clark

#10. The way I live is really me.

Katharine Weymouth

#11. I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.

Larry Clark

#12. Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.

David Crosby

#13. At the age of six, the criteria for handsome was simply: "Is he not related to me?" and "Have I seen him on television?" That was it. By this standard, Larry Bird, Dick Clark, and Andy Rooney. All handsome guys.

Mindy Kaling

#14. I love the musicality of words.

William Shatner

#15. Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

Tim Hiller

#16. I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

Larry Clark

#17. Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. I suppose I had some meaning when I wrote it; I believe I understood it then.

George Gordon Byron

#19. I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

Larry Clark

#20. I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism.

Larry Clark

#21. My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

Larry Clark

#22. I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can ... and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

Larry Clark

#23. For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

Larry Clark

#24. I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.

Emily Robison