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 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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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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Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
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Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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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.
