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.

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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 know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need to put our efforts - if we want to think long-range and invest in the community so that we don't have to, you know, invest in prisons - into making a change, because I know that the library can make a change in a life, because it made a change in mine.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.
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I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.
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If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.
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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.