Vik Muniz Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.
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.
Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.
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.
I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.
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.