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

- Alec Soth

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

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

- Alec Soth

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 pri…

- Alec Soth

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

- Alec Soth

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…

- Alec Soth

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 interpret…

- Alec Soth

This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a bett…

- Alec Soth

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 …

- Alec Soth