Walead Beshty Quotes
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
Quotes to Explore
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you wearing, you'll look trendy and fashionable for sure.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
