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15 quotes by Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvik muˈnis]; born in 1961, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working in series, Muniz incorporates the use of quotidian objects such as diamonds, sugar, thread, chocolate syrup and garbage in his practice to create bold, ironic...
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And... →

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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more... →

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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So... →

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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

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Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving... →

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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of... →

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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really... →

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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very... →

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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually... →

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The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and... →

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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is... →

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I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific... →

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