Occupation: Video Artist Birth: January 25, 1951
The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipu….
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images..
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you t….
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together..
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly fill….
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts..
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art..
Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but ther….
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age..
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly..
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence th….
There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface..
Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines m….
I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for t….
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market i….
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision..
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open..
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it..
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 us….
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church..
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been ….