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.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

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

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

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.