The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
BILL VIOLAThe human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
BILL VIOLALive your Art. Don’t think about it.
BILL VIOLAFor 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.
BILL VIOLAYou are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
BILL VIOLAMy 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.
BILL VIOLAI would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
BILL VIOLAI like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
BILL VIOLAExperience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street – your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what’s going on around you.
BILL VIOLAHuman 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.
BILL VIOLAThe 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 VIOLAI 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.
BILL VIOLAIt only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
BILL VIOLAThere is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
BILL VIOLAA 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.
BILL VIOLAEverything 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.
BILL VIOLAWe call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.
BILL VIOLA