Bill Viola Quotes

The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorldSmallYouHumanEverything

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

Jesse Eisenberg

GoodCharacterJobMindReadingYou

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Joel Sternfeld

PhotographyManipulationCapableBeen

Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'

Jennifer Hudson

GoodPeopleMeAmericanLongYou

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

Mia Hamm

PlayWillRoughLike

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

Amy Heckerling

ChangeNew ThingsWaitingPeopleNew

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

MusicFunCoolThinkMusicians

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Ron Chernow

GreatHeroWashingtonYearsBecoming

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

Corbin Bernsen

SpaceNeedBecauseOurSouls

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

Bruce Wilkinson

GodYouDreamHumanImageMeans

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Aurora

MusicPeopleDownWayWriteOwn

Growing older, you respect the whole culture behind Nirvana.

Ashton Irwin

RespectCultureYouGrowingNirvana

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

Thomas Heatherwick

ArtCityWorldAmericaMuseumWay

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