Alec Soth Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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I grew up in the Middle East. My folks have a very thick, kind of Oklahoma accent; that's where I was born. But we moved to the Middle East right after I was born, so I guess we were surrounded by English people and French people.
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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
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My perfect day is to wake up with all kinds of energy and enthusiasm for the day, have a list of what I want to achieve, and at the end of the day look in the mirror and think man, this has been perfect. Everything I planned became a reality.
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To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.
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It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.
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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.
