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 doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. — Bill Viola Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does. — Bill Viola Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see. — Bill Viola Copy Share
I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression. — Bill Viola Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
