All Bill Viola Quotes
- Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves. Ability
- People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. Art
- 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, it… Acquisition
- Live your Art. Don't think about it. Art
- 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.… Any
- There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it. Inspirational
- 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. Another World
- I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open. Flowing
- 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… Around Showing
- 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… Acrylic
- Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts. Actually Starts
- 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… 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… Age
- 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… Aspect
- 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… Amazement
- You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art. Any
- 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… Art
- 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… Cry
- Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. 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… Begin
- 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 the… Art
- If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has… Been
- I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age. Age
- The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly. Brain
- The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget,… Black