Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about. — 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 Image
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 Image
The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
