Vik Muniz Quotes

The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

Vik Muniz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: brazilian
  • Birth: December 20, 1961

Topics

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In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife.

Jennifer Hyman

HomeTechnologyMorningWifeMom

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

Robert Lepage

SongRememberI CanImportantWhy

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

Michael Connelly

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Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

John Stossel

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My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.

Spike Milligan

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I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

Rob Kardashian

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A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

Mike Simpson

EyesProblemsFindFreshPairOften

One of my signature strengths is the love of learning, and by teaching, I have built it into the fabric of my life. I try to do some of it every day.

Martin Seligman

LifeLoveLearningDayMy LifeTry

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.

Lucinda Franks

SimpleMindRichMeaningEternity

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Chris Lilley

WorkBoundariesWithinDocumentary

I didn't want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us - I was the middle child - and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.

Cicely Tyson

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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Anthony Burgess

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