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.

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

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.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

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.

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

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

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

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.

There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Those who know when to halt are unharmed.

I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.