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I hope we’ll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I’m in Paris, I’ll buy a big bottle of champagne and I’ll save it for that day, for the day when they’ll be no more camera.

Bill Viola

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
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
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Heart Individual Revolution
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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Images Inspiration Writing
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
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
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
Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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Art Live Thinking
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
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Age Different Forgotten
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
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul World
Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity… but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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Feelings Identity Interconnected Rocks Tree
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
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Invisible Living World
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That’s a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.
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Floating Moving Ocean Water
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It’s no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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Experiences Mystical Solitude Wisdom

I hope we’ll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I’m in Paris, I’ll buy a big bottle of champagne and I’ll save it for that day, for the day when they’ll be no more camera.

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I hope we’ll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I’m in Paris, I’ll buy a big bottle of champagne and I’ll save it for that day, for the day when they’ll be no more camera.

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