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