I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are… — 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
