It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
BILL VIOLAWhen 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.
More Bill Viola Quotes
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Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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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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Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
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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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I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.
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There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
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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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