"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.”

“If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.”

“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.”

Source : "Simply Paying Attention With Alec Soth". Interview with Alexander Strecker, www.lensculture.com.

“I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.”

“How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new!”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (188?). “Grimm's Fairy tales: A new translation”

“Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.”

“The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.”