Walead Quotes

#1. Mothers are all slightly insane.

J.D. Salinger

#2. I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

Helen Thomas

#3. The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

Bear Grylls

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

Andy Borowitz

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

Walead Beshty

#8. My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Walead Beshty

#10. We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

Elizabeth George

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Stop to kiss, the kissing gate
demands, and so do we, its fines.

Loretta Livingstone

#14. There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens.

Patricia Highsmith

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

Walead Beshty

#16. [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

#17. My would-be assassin was a very good shot.

Benedict Jacka

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

Walead Beshty

#19. Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

Paul Feig