Bill Viola Quotes
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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.
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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.
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This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
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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.
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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.
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When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
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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.
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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.