The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. S…

- Tom Burr

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing somethi…

- Tom Burr

One of the things about working over decades is the cumulative and the durational effect of work. That the updating process of a work happens less in…

- Tom Burr

I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotiona…

- Tom Burr

I do think of my work as being quintessentially American in that it could only have emerged in that particular situation that I find myself. I feel t…

- Tom Burr

I find that deadlines form part of the aesthetic. I don't have that "It could only have been this way" kind of thing. I tend to rewrite it and say th…

- Tom Burr

Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of lon…

- Tom Burr