Closest Quote by 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

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

— Larry Towell

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the…

— Frank Horvat

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's…

— Alec Soth

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being…

— Peter Porter

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship…

— Gerard Malanga

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would…

— Sally Mann

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

“One of the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings. When you…

— Todd Hido