Bill Viola

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. ”

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does. ”

The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window. ”

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age. ”

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images. ”

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. ”

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art. ”

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. ”