Shimon Attie Quotes

#1. We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.

Rich Sommer

#3. And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity.
The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. What do you do when you're in a room of vampires and the most dangerous one tells you that you
know too much? You bolt. What did I do? I hyperventilated.

Tijan

#5. We've all made mistakes. We've all done things we wish we hadn't. The goal is to learn, and to move on and try to live a life of no regrets.

Lauren Blakely

#6. My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

Shimon Attie

#7. I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.

Shimon Attie

#8. There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.

Shimon Attie

#9. The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

Arnold Bennett

#10. That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Dan Shechtman

#12. I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

Shimon Attie

#13. Collection is an addiction.

Judith Miller

#14. Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.

Shimon Attie

#15. I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

Shimon Attie

#16. Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping

Bobby Darnell

#17. You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

David Gest