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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Analysis Any Been Brings Contemplation Dangers Era Events Goes Greatest Happening Idea Kind Out Political Post-War Real Real Time Reflection Response Television Therefore Thoughtful Time Us Velocity Window

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Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

~Bill Viola

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Amazement Aspect Basis Changes Creative Done Essential Even Exists Extraordinary Fundamental How Image Images Manipulated Me Moment Movement Next Possibilities Really Something Stand Though Video You

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Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.

~Bill Viola

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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

Topics: Art Being Come Empty Just Literally Lot Making Open Place Putting Right Right Place Things Together Yourself

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One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.

~Bill Viola

Topics: About Beat Doubt Enough Get Good Ideas Important Important Things Insecure Just Kind Me Mean Method Most Myself Over Paranoid Really Right Right Thing Say Terms The Most Important The Right Thing Thing Things Up Very Way Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 25th, 1951

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