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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 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
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
Experience 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.
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Embody Everything Experience Memories Microsm Retina
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
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul World
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
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Impression Second Vision
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
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Invisible Living World
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
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
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
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
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

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