I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

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.

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

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.