Nam June Paik Quotes

#1. There is no rewind button for life.

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

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

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#5. The future is now.

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

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#7. There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

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#8. Without electricity, there can be no art.

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#9. 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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#10. The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas,

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#11. The only way to win a race is to run alone.

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