"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."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alec Soth

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.”
“I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, â€˜How do we make people pay for music?â€™ What if we started asking, â€˜How do we LET people pay for music?â€™”

Source : "How Do You Get People To Pay For Music?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 17, 2013.
“Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.”
“But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands me" Dean, ran with increasing vehement negativism up through the Stones and Velvets and Iggy ... [I]t may be time, in spite of all indications to the contrary from the exterior society, to begin thinking in terms of heroes again, of love instead of hate, of energy instead of violence, of strength instead of cruelty, of action instead of reaction.”
“Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.”
“If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.”

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