Vik Muniz

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So…

— Vik Muniz

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line,…

— Vik Muniz

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

— Vik Muniz

My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how…

— Vik Muniz

I think I'm an ambitious artist but you have to understand the measure of your influence on people. You're not going to…

— Vik Muniz

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

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…

— Vik Muniz

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…

— Vik Muniz

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking…

— Vik Muniz

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle…

— Vik Muniz

Every time you show something to somebody they're going in one direction, when they see that thing you did they're going to…

— Vik Muniz

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all…

— Vik Muniz

I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think…

— Vik Muniz

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

— Vik Muniz

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that…

— Vik Muniz

We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go…

— Vik Muniz

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense…

— Vik Muniz

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe…

— Vik Muniz

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

— Vik Muniz

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half…

— Vik Muniz

I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm…

— Vik Muniz

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such…

— Vik Muniz

Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual…

— Vik Muniz

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives.…

— Vik Muniz