I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion. The fact that the sound of my ….

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….

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….

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….

I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happeni….

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….

We need saints; we need this head - this talking head - to communicate. Every single religion you have people that go in-between, that can talk to go….

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, p….

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..

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

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….

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 w….

I think I'm an ambitious artist but you have to understand the measure of your influence on people. You're not going to change people's lives with yo….

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

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it..

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies..

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..

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….

I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of ….

Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he to….

When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing lik….