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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
- Almost Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020