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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Any Been Beginning Coincidence Desert Experience Kind Major Major Part Mandatory Mystical Out Part Scholar Since Solitude Spend Thinker Time Visionary

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Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Also Connects Desire Dirt Feel Feeling Identity Interconnected Life Like Losing Merge My Life My Own Own Rocks Separates Stones Terms Trees Us Vision Work You I Feel

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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Been Buildings Car Earth Fallen Historical Images Landscape Lights Look Most Our Realize Species Street Terms Time You

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The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Black-And-White Brought Camera Classroom Experience First Forget Had High High School Image Kid Looking Never Never Forget School Surveillance Very Video Will

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

~Bill Viola

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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Also Aware Beings Big Engaged Feel Great Grounded History Human Human Beings Innovation Need Newest Push Really Think Wanting I Think

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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

Topics: Art Asleep Because Fast-Paced Industrialized Live Me Process Remain Soul Trying Up Wake Wake Up World

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The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Another Bang Beings Cycle Everything Existence Fine Get Happens Human Human Beings Just Large Major Normal Over Small Somehow Then Very Ways World You

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

~Bill Viola

Topics: Cry Day Expression Forms Human Lot Most Once Profound Think I Think

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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Cry Crying Doctor Knife Me Ok Once Over Run Scream Someone Sure Try You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 25th, 1951

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