Alec Soth Quotes
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
Alec Soth
Quotes to Explore
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
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Every fight and every loss taught me something.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
Gary Busey
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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
Samira Wiley
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen
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For a person to have a contented life, they have to find something that challenges them and respond to it…
Art Farmer
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Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.
Dave Calhoun
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Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.
William Wegman
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
Alec Soth
