Nam June Paik Quotes

• Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

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  Technology, Reality, Skins

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• Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

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  Beautiful

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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.

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  Strong, Jobs, War

  "Art People" by Douglas C. McGill. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Without electricity, there can be no art.

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  Art, Electricity

  "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly, December 20, 2010.

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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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  Culture

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• An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

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  Artist, Hands, Should

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• When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

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  Perfect

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• The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

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  Rays, Canvas, Tubes

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• There is no rewind button for life.

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  Buttons, Rewind

  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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  Running, Winning, Race

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• There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

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  Buttons, Rewind

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