Bits Quote by 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 go off track - maybe towards a direction that you think is more important. They'll be more discerning, they'll probably see things a little bit more profoundly, they'll spend…” quote by Vik Muniz — Download Open image

“Every time you show something to somebody they're going in one direction, when they see that thing you did they're going to go off track - maybe towards a direction that you think is more important. They'll be more discerning, they'll probably see things a little bit more profoundly, they'll spend more time trying to understand what's in front of them.”

Vik Muniz

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Bits Discerning Fronts Important Little bit Littles More time One direction Shows Thinking Time Track Trying

More by 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 Brazilians become…

Vik Muniz

Image

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move…

Vik Muniz

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

Vik Muniz

Image

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

Vik Muniz

Image

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

Vik Muniz

Image

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think…

Vik Muniz

Image

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 on pictures…

Vik Muniz

Image

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 took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.

Vik Muniz

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

Vik Muniz

Image

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 actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give…

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 trying to…

Vik Muniz

Image

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

Vik Muniz

Image

Explore all 41 Vik Muniz quotes

More Bits quotes

Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him…

David Kirschner

Image

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

Gore Vidal

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled…

Paul Smith

Image

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.…

Bruce Campbell

Image

If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small…

Terry Bozzio

Image

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds…

Kevin Maney

Image

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.

Steven Morrissey

Image

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Louise Fitzhugh

Image

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong…

Susan Boyle

Image

I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door.

Wentworth Miller

Image

We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit…

Roger Meddows Taylor

Image

In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm…

Kelly Link

Image

Browse all 5,683 Bits quotes

Bits Quote by Vik Muniz

Related quotes

More by Vik Muniz

More Bits quotes