Larry Towell Quotes

#1. What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

John Entwistle

#2. The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

Zoe McLellan

#3. Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

Larry Towell

#4. To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Juvenal

#5. Be yourself and look outside of yourself.

Larry Towell

#6. I don't like the idea of other people poring over my secrets. I don't even know if I have any secrets.

Jasmine Warga

#7. As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

Ralph Lauren

#8. If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.

Larry Towell

#9. What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#10. Photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?

Larry Towell

#11. I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.

Sylvie Simmons

#12. Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

Laozi

#13. Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.

Rosamund Lupton

#14. I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.

Thomas Piketty

#15. What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

Zig Ziglar

#16. People aren't photographing for history any more. It's for immediate gratification. If you're photographing to share an image, you're not photographing to keep it.

Larry Towell