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Live your Art. Don’t think about it.

Bill Viola

In the mid- to late ’60s to the mid-’70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
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Art Change Students Thinking
Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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Art Live Thinking
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
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
When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.
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Container Outside Water Merge
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
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
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Age Different Forgotten
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
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Art Being Just Together
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul 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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Death DNA Light Material Speed
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
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Invisible Living World
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
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Impression Second Vision
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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Images Inspiration 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

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