Walead Quotes & Sayings

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss. — Albert Bushnell Hart

The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates the conditions for superior performance. — Cheryl A. Bachelder

When Wellington Mara died in 2005, he took a piece of the organization's soul with him - one that fans, players, and staff still miss. — Dave Buscema

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something — Lemony Snicket

If there could be a little blue light on the rooftop of every home in your town where a mother is awake when you are, the town would be lit with little blue lights, coming on and off, but always lots of them. It might even help to picture it when you're feeling awake and alone in the middle of the night. — Diane Wiessinger

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves. — Dan Butler

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

Morning."
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Hey, you aren't the only one who had a bad night. Fourth grade is rough. I had two hours of homework. — Colleen Hoover

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another. — Walead Beshty

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for. — Kingsley Amis

This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment. — Alex Perry

Mentioning the faults of others does not rid us of our own. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

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

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up. — Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts. — Walead Beshty

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

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

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. — Coco Chanel

[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

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world. — Walead Beshty