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

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.

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.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

I believe I can make all the money I've missed. But I can't regain the time with fans and family.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere.