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This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see. — Bill Viola

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 together. — Bill Viola

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step. — Scott Walker

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression. — Bill Viola

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting. — Freddie Highmore

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses. — Peter Greenaway

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. — Bill Viola

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 giving these talks. — Bill Viola

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 poem. — Bill Viola

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. — Octavius Winslow

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision. — Bill Viola

Sometimes we have to find the courage to take off our shoes and feel it all. Even the bad stuff. — Denise Hunter

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill

If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick. — Stephen Richards

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

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly. — Christopher Rice

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 can be and how art is made. — Bill Viola

Live your Art. Don't think about it. — Bill Viola

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Be in the world but not of it; become less attached to outcome and more attuned to outgo, which is the natural radiance of your being. — Derek Rydall

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts. — Bill Viola

He was broken because of the army, and the army didn't want him because he was broken. — Tami Hoag

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

Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it. — Alice Hoffman

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open. — Bill Viola

She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it. — Bill Viola

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art. — Bill Viola

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves. — Bill Viola

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does. — Bill Viola

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. — Bill Viola

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age. — Bill Viola

Is it true the ribs can tell The kick of a beast from a Lover's fist? — Maya Angelou

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to. — Christian Bale