Alec Soth Quotes

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• This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a…
• Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.
• For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
• If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?
• Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and…
• I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The…
• For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.
• If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a…
• 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 be…
• For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
• 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 fill…
• Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with.…
• I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer…
• I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.
• Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.
• The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to…
• I'm like the annoying guy in the street.
• 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 so…
• 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 more…

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