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Live your Art. Don't think about it.
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
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.
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
I cry a lot. Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression.
I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.
Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment.
Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology.
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.
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.
When I'm approached by brands I use the kind of philosophy - I don't really get into a project unless I feel I can make something that will be honest for me.
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.
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.
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.
Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.
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.
You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.
I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.
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.
I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding!" But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.
Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.
[While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media.
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.