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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

Topics: Around Artists Being Economically End Giving Go Low Pole Showing Survive Talks Totem Video Ways Work

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In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Actual Bad Between Critics Doing Either Film-Makers Got Lot Reviews Understand Video Were Witness 1970S

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

~Bill Viola

Topics: Age Different Forgotten Prefer Then Would

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I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Age Also Artists Came Coming Companies Could End How Immediately Just Knew Market Sony Starting Used Video Were World I Came 1960S

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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

Topics: Brain Complex Earth Face Honestly Human Human Brain Most Objects Quite Single Think I Think

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I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Advanced Age Almost Almost Anything Anything Artists Command Computer Good House Household Incredible Items Jackson Know Materials Now Oil Old Paint Range Really Systems Think Use Used Where You I Think

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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

Topics: Any Art Expert Feeling Judgment Just Make Qualified Response Work You

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When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Body Come Coming Experience Going Happening Intellectual Light Lights Loud Off On And Off Physical Pieces Roaring Some Sound You Your Your Body

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

~Bill Viola

Topics: Get Images Inspiration Lot Rather Spend Texts Than Time Writing

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The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.

~Bill Viola

Topics: Art Before Changed Code Depths Find Future Go Going Guys Historians Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Out Software Who Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 25th, 1951

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