The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

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.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

But when I think of us, in the quiet when I'm on my own, I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

I'm kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes.

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.