Author: Bill Viola

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

- Bill Viola

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 the soul remain asleep.

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 the soul remain asleep.

- Bill Viola

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