"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."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alec Soth

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“Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.”
“And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.”

Source : Opal Whiteley (2010). “Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, p.127, Crown
“Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!”
“Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.”
“A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”
“What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.”

Source : "He's a really good guy". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2007.
“The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.”
“If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it. In particular, that's the system we reserve for our veterans. So if I hear politicians run down socialized medicine - and I have done that before the Congress - I say: Do you hate your veterans? Why do you reserve purely socialized medicine - there's only the U.S. and Cuba that have that - for the veterans? So getting the terms right would be very, very helpful in our national conversation on health reform.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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