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… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
