20 Quotes by Alec Soth

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.

I’m a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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