Artist Quotes by Bill Viola

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

— Bill Viola

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…

— Bill Viola

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

— Bill Viola

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

— Bill Viola

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…

— Bill Viola

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

— Bill Viola

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work…

— Bill Viola

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

— Bill Viola

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out…

— Bill Viola

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that…

— Bill Viola

In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were…

— Bill Viola

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

— Bill Viola

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

— Bill Viola

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

— Bill Viola

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what…

— Bill Viola