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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.

Vik Muniz

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Vik Muniz
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 20
Artist
Drawer
Film Director
Land Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Writer
Sao Paulo
Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz
Vicente Jose de Oliveira Muniz
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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.
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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.
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If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.
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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.
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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.
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The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.
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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.
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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.
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I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.
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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.
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Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.
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Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
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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.
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