Tears of a modern mystic

Bill Viola, The Tristan Project.

"I cry a lot," he says. "Usually once a day. I think it's one of the most profound forms of human expression."

"Creativity comes out of two things: boredom and crisis," he says.

"Art is not a straight line. It never has been, and if you see that in art you should be suspicious."

Bill Viola, entrevistado por Joyce Morgan, para The Age.