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We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

Bill Viola

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Invisible Living 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
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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Art Believe Borrowing Original Thinking
Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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Art Live Thinking
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
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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Intellectual Keys Thinking
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
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
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
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
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
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Impression Second Vision
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
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

We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

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