Soth Quotes

#1. Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said
"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#2. We did not know that she had passed," Soth said. She held a palm up to the air. "Hopefully, her spirit has found serenity."
The council did the same. "Spirit find Serenity," they said in unison.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#3. I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

Alec Soth

#4. 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.

Alec Soth

#5. If you want to be a creative person, then you're gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn't a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

Alec Soth

#6. If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?

Alec Soth

#7. The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Alec Soth

#8. I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

Loretta Lynn

#9. I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

Alec Soth

#10. Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But every now and then you catch a glimpse of the photographer's reflection. The mirror is just another function of the window.

Alec Soth

#11. Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed ...

C.S. Lewis

#12. [Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

Alec Soth

#13. The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.

Alec Soth

#14. Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Alec Soth

#15. I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

Alec Soth

#16. Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

Alec Soth

#17. Who taught you to pilot a Jacket like that?"
"You did, Sergeant.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#18. 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

#19. I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

Alec Soth

#20. Utu
Maori revenge. 'Do everything well, boy. Do it better than them. Be a better rugby player, better at your job. Outshine them everywhere. Tramp on their pride. Go far, and leave them sniveling in your dust.

Kris Pearson

#21. It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

Alec Soth

#22. I'm like the annoying guy in the street.

Alec Soth

#23. For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

Alec Soth

#24. Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer.

Alec Soth

#25. Tony Stark/Iron Man, like Victor Frankenstein before him, has built the monster that may make his worst fear a reality. And now he and his friends are locked into the battle with the monster sworn to destroy them.

Chris Soth

#26. Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Alec Soth

#27. For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Alec Soth

#28. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

Alec Soth

#29. Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

Matt Kindt