The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
