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