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.

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

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.

The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

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.

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.