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 u…

- 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.

- Vik Muniz

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 an…

- Vik Muniz

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 epistemol…

- Vik Muniz

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

- Vik Muniz

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

- Vik Muniz

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…

- Vik Muniz

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…

- Vik Muniz

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.

- Vik Muniz