- Kutlug Ataman: Identity is essentially something we wear, that we get used to wearing. Sometimes we mend it, or take it off to wear another one.
- Kutlug Ataman: [talking about "The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read"] You peel it one layer after another, thinking with every layer that it will reveal something in the core, but you end up seeing another layer. You could see this as a non-concept, as nothingness, but on the other hand, in a formalistic way, that skin itself is much more important. The frame, the crust, the outer cover matter more than the content.
- Kutlug Ataman: [talking about "Column"] It's a monument to people who do not have the voice to broadcast their victory, and whose only victory is the fact that they survived.
- Kutlug Ataman: [talking about "Dome"] I was completely taken by all these frescos in Rome when I was in my residency here. So I created these Turkish images of youth, flying in the sky, almost like the cherubims and angels.
- Kutlug Ataman: If there's an image in a mirror and it gets broken, you have a thousand images. With every fragment shattered again, you have another thousand images. I really believe that stories multiply and reproduce themselves, and that storytelling is multiplied endlessly.
- Kutlug Ataman: I gave "semiha b. unplugged" to the viewers just like a bag of footage, of rushes, so that they pick parts they like and go out with their own subjective stories. No two people watch exactly the same parts of it, because the work is too long, that's the point.
- Kutlug Ataman: Existing on the societal level, we all compose a narration interactively, every moment, to create a facade. If narration or story had not been present in human life then human life would not exist at all. Storytelling is required by the human life, it is just inevitable.
- Kutlug Ataman: If we are to think of it as a mosaic, I see all the works I did as small and varied pieces of this mosaic. When these pieces all fit together, they will reveal a self-portrait, I hope.