Bill Viola

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

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.

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

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.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

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.