It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
BILL VIOLAWe call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.
More Bill Viola Quotes
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The 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.
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I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
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Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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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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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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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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I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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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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We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.
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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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Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
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There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity… but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
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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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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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