Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as being an instrumen….

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our p….

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's….

I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts..

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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….

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 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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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….

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….