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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I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.
Billie Eilish
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How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?
Allan Sekula
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putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.
Jack Straw
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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
Aimee Bender
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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
