Paik Quotes

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

Nam June Paik

#2. I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Ben Okri

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

Nam June Paik

#4. I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time.

Tony Dungy

#5. Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Marina Abramovic

#6. Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.

Jordan Spieth

#7. The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas,

Nam June Paik

#8. The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

Nam June Paik

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

Nam June Paik

#10. God gives life and he takes life. Everybody who dies, dies because God wills that they die.

John Piper

#11. There is no rewind button for life.

Nam June Paik

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

Nam June Paik

#13. The future is now.

Nam June Paik

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

Nam June Paik

#15. Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing.

James S.A. Corey

#16. 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

#17. I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

Frederick Douglass

#18. I'm not looking to be a Big Mac and fries author a la King. I'm aiming at filet mignon and steamed zucchini.

LK Hunsaker

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

Nam June Paik

#20. They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

Charles Dickens