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Bill Viola

Live your Art. Don’t think about it.
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Art Live Thinking
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
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Flowing Keep Meaning Open
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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Fast Paced Soul World
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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Floating Moving Ocean Water
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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

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