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Top 20 Alec Soth Quotes (2024 Update)

Alec Soth Quote: “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 in.”

1. “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 in.”

Alec Soth Quote: “I’m a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.”

2. “I’m a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.”

Alec Soth Quote: “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 path. Part of the creativity is making your path.”

3. “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 path. Part of the creativity is making your path.”

Alec Soth Quote: “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 open to interpretation. And I’m very happy having different interpretations of it.”

4. “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 open to interpretation. And I’m very happy having different interpretations of it.”

Alec Soth Quote: “Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.”

5. “Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.”

Alec Soth Quote: “For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.”

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

Alec Soth Quote: “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 be alone making the pictures.”

7. “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 be alone making the pictures.”

Alec Soth Quote: “Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.”

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

Alec Soth Quote: “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 picture is a document of that performance.”

9. “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 picture is a document of that performance.”

Alec Soth Quote: “Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description – a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer’s reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.”

10. “Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description – a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer’s reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.”

Alec Soth Quote: “If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?”

11. “If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?”

Alec Soth Quote: “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. It’s language.”

12. “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. It’s language.”

Alec Soth Quote: “For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.”

13. “For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.”

Alec Soth Quote: “It’s a weird combination that makes a great picture. It’s a complete mystery to me.”

14. “It’s a weird combination that makes a great picture. It’s a complete mystery to me.”

Alec Soth Quote: “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 and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I’m uncomfortable with buying an experience.”

15. “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 and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I’m uncomfortable with buying an experience.”

Alec Soth Quote: “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 problematic. And so for me, it’s got me more engaged with storytelling.”

16. “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 problematic. And so for me, it’s got me more engaged with storytelling.”

Alec Soth Quote: “Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.”

17. “Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.”

Alec Soth Quote: “I’m like the annoying guy in the street.”

18. “I’m like the annoying guy in the street.”

Alec Soth Quote: “I’ve never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.”

19. “I’ve never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.”

Alec Soth Quote: “For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.”

20. “For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.”

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