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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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Invisible Living World
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
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
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
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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Death DNA Light Material Speed

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