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Nam June Paik Quotes

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

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

Nam June Paik
Technology, Reality, Skins

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

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

Nam June Paik
Beautiful

Without electricity, there can be no art.

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

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

Nam June Paik
Culture

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

Nam June Paik
Artist, Hands, Should

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

Nam June Paik
Perfect

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

Nam June Paik
Rays, Canvas, Tubes

There is no rewind button for life.

Nam June Paik
Buttons, Rewind
Nam June Paik, Hong-hŭi Kim (2007). “Nam June Paik and Korea, from fantasy to hyperreality”

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

Nam June Paik
Running, Winning, Race

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

Nam June Paik
Buttons, Rewind

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