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.

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

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.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

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.

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.

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 reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.