Bill Viola Quotes

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkVisionLosingIdentity

In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.

John Dickerson

GovernmentImmigrationConservative

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

John Mayer

AgeEarlyWantSuccessfulKeepVery

I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.

Robert Lepage

HistoryPeopleSmallStoryReality

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

Aly Raisman

MyselfI AmStay FocusedThinkDoing

In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.

Stephen Graham Jones

AmazingBuildingNeverOverEnglish

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

Sullivan Stapleton

GoodChildrenMoneyMeSisterShort

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

Tony Oliva

LoveHomeNew YorkNever ForgetPlay

Philadelphia's Schuylkill River has long been the mother of waters for mid-Atlantic rowers, just as the Charles, which separates Boston from Cambridge, is for New England boaters.

Roger Morris

MotherRiverLongPhiladelphiaNew

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

Matt Bellamy

MovingOperaPompousAlso

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.

Mike Nichols

StoryComfortAwayUsBecauseClose

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

Marv Levy

NewStartedGetHopingNovel

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

Doug Davidson

LiveChildrenPlaceAnimalsPossible

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