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.
BILL VIOLAI would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
More Bill Viola Quotes
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I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
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I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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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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Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
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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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Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
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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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Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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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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We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.
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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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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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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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Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
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