You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you. Bill Viola Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. Bill Viola Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see. Bill Viola Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
