Shimon Attie famous quotes

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.
-- Shimon Attie

#Thinking #Today #Kind

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.
-- Shimon Attie

#Reflection #Opportunity #Meditation

There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.
-- Shimon Attie

#People #Community #Missing

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.
-- Shimon Attie

#Community #Use #Whispering

Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.
-- Shimon Attie

#Mean #Visible

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.
-- Shimon Attie

#Media #Use #Site

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.