Alec Soth Quotes

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

• Photographer
• Narrative
• Project-Based

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• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Ever
  • Comeback

• When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Book
  • Criticism

• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• I believe in something.

  

  Larry David
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Way
  • Wish

• People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Men
  • Country

• Effort plus motive equals result.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Effort

• I treasure the three years that we were together (coaching).

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Together
  • Coaching
  • Treasure

• The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Important
  • Free

• How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hate

• The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before.

  

  Zeljko Obradovic
  • Bad
  • Hate
  • Mistake

• There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • American

• I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Narrative
  • Flashback

• I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Order
  • Students
  • Bike

• 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
  • Photographer
  • Narrative
  • Project-Based