Nam June Paik Quotes

#1. It is not the grown man- the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring- you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.

Jojo Moyes

#2. There is no rewind button for life.

Nam June Paik

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

Nam June Paik

#4. 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 Paik

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

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#6. The future is now.

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

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

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#9. But why must man suffer and sacrifice for God? At the end of his suffering and sacrifice he will find that though he began to do so for God, it has proved to be for himself. It is the foolishly selfish who is selfish, and the wisely selfish proves to be selfless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#10. And just before 0145h. on 2 April Y.D.A.U., his wife arrived back home

David Foster Wallace

#11. Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.

Raphael Saadiq

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

Nam June Paik

#13. 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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#14. The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas,

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

Nam June Paik

#16. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

George Eliot