Nam June Paik quotes
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“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.”
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“An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.”
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“The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas,”
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“The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.”
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“There is no rewind button for life.”
-- Nam June PaikSource : Nam June Paik, Hong-hŭi Kim (2007). “Nam June Paik and Korea, from fantasy to hyperreality”
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“The only way to win a race is to run alone.”
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“Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.”
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“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.”
-- Nam June PaikSource : "Art People" by Douglas C. McGill. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.
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“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
-- Nam June PaikSource : "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly, December 20, 2010.
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