Bill Viola Quotes

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1951

Topics

LiveArtSoulMeWorldWake Up

I believe in prayer. I pray every night.

John McCain

PrayerNightBelieveI BelievePray

At the Barcelona youth academy, I lived right next to Camp Nou, but I spent my days watching movies.

Mauro Icardi

YouthMoviesWatchingRightLived

I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.

Amy Hempel

MotherAgeWordsYoungSheSeem

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

LoveDreamsHappinessLove IsOnly

I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.

Troy Polamalu

GreatTeamThinkBetterGreat Things

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Tom Ford

FashionDesignDoneFilmDirecting

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

Ross Perot, Jr.

GreatTeamWinningLongWillOwner

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

LoveLove IsChildParentIllusion

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'

Denis Leary

WorldDoingBackAlwaysOutCancer

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Dorothy Allison

StoryLanguagePersonKnowBecome

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

Willie Aames

LifeWifeMeInsurancePolicyExtra

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Nikola Tesla

GreatMenThinkNameYouInventions

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