58 Quotes by Bill Viola

I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

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

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

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

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

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.

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.

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.