Wegman Quotes

#1. That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari

#2. When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone ... I was throwing radios off buildings and ... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

William Wegman

#4. What's on the inside, beneath that sugar? Is it a bug? Is it a booger?

Elle Valentine

#5. Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous.

William Wegman

#6. Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal.

Susan Estrich

#7. The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#8. Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years ... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.

William Wegman

#9. God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

John Piper

#10. I get so confused about life photography art.

William Wegman

#11. My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything.

William Wegman

#12. I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.

William Wegman

#13. For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

Pink

#14. Dangle something in front of the camera. Get something surprising to be released.

William Wegman

#15. People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.

William Wegman

#17. I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

William Wegman

#18. When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.

William Wegman

#19. As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

William Wegman

#20. for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.

Sanober Khan

#21. 'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#22. Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

William Wegman