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Live your Art. Don’t think about it.

Bill Viola

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
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul World
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
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
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
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
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
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
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
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
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Heart Individual Revolution
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
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
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
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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Images Inspiration Writing

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