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Creativity Quote by Alec Soth

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[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…

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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…

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I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

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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…

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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…

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

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Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

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If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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