Vik Muniz Quotes

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• It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we…
• A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention,…
• When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have…
• The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.
• The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.
• Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving…
• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
• My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and…
• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed…
• The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but…
• My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read -…
• Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it…

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