Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage. — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. — Vik Muniz Copy Share
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
I think I'm an ambitious artist but you have to understand the measure of your influence on people. You're not going to change people's… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty,… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
Every time you show something to somebody they're going in one direction, when they see that thing you did they're going to go off… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts. — Vik Muniz Copy Share
The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to… — Vik Muniz Copy Share
