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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.

Bill Viola

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 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
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
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
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
Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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Art Live Thinking
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
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Impression Second Vision
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
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Heart Individual Revolution
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
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
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
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
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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Able Cameras Paris
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
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul World
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

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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