Bill Viola Quotes

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SimpleWordsSometimesWayImage

I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.

Andrew Luck

FunMomGameAppreciatedOutsideUs

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

KnowledgeExperienceManGoBeyond

The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London.

Robert Lepage

ImportantLondonCriticsSameYears

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Robert Gould Shaw

AgeLiteratureYouGoneFineMade

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

Michael Hayden

SecretsQuestionYesThingsAnswer

If you disarm someone's hands - they cannot kill you!

Michael Cudlitz

SomeoneHandsYouCannotDisarm

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

MomentMomentsIllusionYoungWill

I will flight for the people until my last breath.

Rodrigo Duterte

PeopleFlightWillBreathLast

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

Jonathan Ive

LifeDesignYouThreeStudyingFour

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

Ashley Tisdale

DaughterSportsSisterSheBecause

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

Wynton Marsalis

MusicPeopleMusiciansFriendsLucky

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

PassionPowerGreatDayEffortLong

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