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Bill Viola Quotes: When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
         

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.


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