Photography Quotes by Larry Clark

[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a…

— Larry Clark

I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since I'm doing…

— Larry Clark

I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.

— Larry Clark

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…

— Larry Clark

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and…

— Larry Clark

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…

— Larry Clark

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…

— Larry Clark

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward.…

— Larry Clark

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all…

— Larry Clark

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There…

— Larry Clark

If I want something I do everything to get it.

— Larry Clark

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

— Larry Clark

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There…

— Larry Clark

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…

— Larry Clark

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody…

— Larry Clark