Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

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 try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

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.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.