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The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

Bill Viola

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
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Impression Second Vision
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
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Art Experts Feelings
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul World
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
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Intellectual Keys Thinking
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.
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Age Artist Coming Panasonic Video Year
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
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Age Different Forgotten
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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Images Inspiration Writing
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional – a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
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Art Hope Reflection Something Space
Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.
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Creative Devotion Express Guy Pyramids
I don’t believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We’re always borrowing.
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Art Believe Borrowing Original Thinking
Everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead – how the world meets the mind, not the eye.
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Everything Issue Man Mind Walk
We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.
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Call Death Metaphor Moment Ourselves
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it’s an image, and sometimes it’s words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
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Fragment might Simple Writing
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
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Brain Earth Honestly Thinking
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Invisible Living World

The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

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The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

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