Art Quote by Bill Viola Download Open image “People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.” — Bill Viola ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Museum Art Museums Church Museums People Spirit Today Used
Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing. — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted people. Instead,… — Scott S. Haraburda Copy Share Image
Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
