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

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

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.

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 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.