Vik Muniz Quotes

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  • I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

    Art   Creating   Ethics  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

  • The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

    " The Observer Scenes from the world's largest rubbish dump" by Lucy Walker, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.
  • I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.

    Reality   Order   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

  • My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

    Believe   Book   Jetty  
  • When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

    Moving   Tree   Facts  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

  • I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.

    Thinking   Light   Kind  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to god or communicate ideas. Then there are the talking heads in the news every time we watch TV. No matter how complex, you still need a person there to tell you what happened: a storyteller of sorts. I find that fascinating that we feel so attached to this primitive mode of connection, this primitive interface to the world.

    Talking   Ideas   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

  • Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.

    Taken   Views   Saint  
  • Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.

    Art   Dark   Empowering  
  • I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion. The fact that the sound of my voice and the way I modulate it creates pictures in your head... in order for us to accumulate knowledge, we have to create symbolic exchanges that let ourselves be fooled temporarily by something that's not there - by a substitute for reality. When you talk about representation, you're talking about language.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.

    Army   People   Painting  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Every time you show something to somebody they're going in one direction, when they see that thing you did they're going to go off track - maybe towards a direction that you think is more important. They'll be more discerning, they'll probably see things a little bit more profoundly, they'll spend more time trying to understand what's in front of them.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

    Interview with Jason Landry, bigredandshiny.org. April 27, 2009.
  • Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

    Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”
  • I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

    Art   Thinking   Magic  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

    Ideas   Form   Let Me  
    Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”
  • When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

    Fall   Mean   Reality  
  • I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.

  • I think I'm an ambitious artist but you have to understand the measure of your influence on people. You're not going to change people's lives with your art. What you do is you give them a little pat so that you change the course of the direction that they're going.

    Art   Thinking   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrument, the whole body as being a visual instrument. That sort of gave way a little bit with Cartesian­ - the "Cogito ergo sum" argument. It's not, "I think therefore I exist." It's, "I feel therefore I think therefore I exist."

    Eye   Thinking   Artist  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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