Bill Viola Quotes

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• Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
• People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
• 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,…
• Live your Art. Don't think about it.
• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.…
• There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
• 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.
• I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.
• Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and…
• I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from…
• Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
• 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 art…
• I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic…
• Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions…
• The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can…
• You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
• A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come…
• A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't…
• Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
• My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a…

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