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

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.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

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

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Save a life. Seed a generation

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.