There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

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• Bill Viola:

  Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge.

• Bill Viola:

  In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thi

• Bill Viola:

  The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what ca

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  If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Ear

• Bill Viola:

  Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human being

• Bill Viola:

  A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place

• Bill Viola:

  One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure

• Bill Viola:

  Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out

• Bill Viola:

  Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to

• Bill Viola:

  In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers