Walead Beshty Quotes

#1. I'm not particularly invested in, nor do I really care about, photography in a general sense. It's a medium that's relatively ubiquitous, readily accessible, and that I have some facility with, so it makes sense for me to use it.

Walead Beshty

#2. I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walead Beshty

#3. I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

Walead Beshty

#4. There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Walead Beshty

#5. I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

Walead Beshty

#6. Men differ in their virtues, if any," said Gail Wynand, explaining his policy, "but they are alike in their vices.

Ayn Rand

#7. You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

Ray Bradbury

#8. The soft throb and glow roused in my breast by the gilt letters of four or five different languages winking at me from scores of handsomely tooled bindings - the sight of so much knowledge so beautifully presented - swiftly flamed out.

Ross King

#9. I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.

Oscar Nunez

#10. While Sigmund famously focused on the unconscious (the id), Anna made the ego seem more important, particularly in respect of therapy and psychoanalysis. Her

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#11. I'll miss you, too. More than you know, he breathes.

E.L. James

#12. My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Walead Beshty

#13. Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

Edward Albee

#14. [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

Walead Beshty

#15. Pleasure quickens your body, happiness soothes your mind, joy renews your heart, and love revives your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

Shinichi Suzuki

#17. There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

Walead Beshty

#18. Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

Lester Young

#19. It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

Walead Beshty

#20. Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

Donna Andrews