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.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

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

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

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.

I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.

For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.