Quotes by Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz

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.

Intention

Littles

Looks

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

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.

One Direction

Thinking

Track

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.

Order

People

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.

Confused

Hate

Photography

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.

Art

Technology

Thinking

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

People

Thinking

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

Kind

Light

Thinking

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.

Reality

Thinking

Voice

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

Magic

Thinking

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Quotes by Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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