Poetry is Quotes by Alec Soth

If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

— Alec Soth

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to…

— Alec Soth

I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

— Alec Soth

I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs online. It's…

— Alec Soth

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in…

— Alec Soth

Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now…

— Alec Soth

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

— Alec Soth

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to…

— Alec Soth

Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes it even…

— Alec Soth

Every once in a while I have this revelation like, "Wow, a hundred years ago the world wasn't black and white." It was in…

— Alec Soth

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

— Alec Soth