Nam June Paik Quotations

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.

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

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas,

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

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

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

There is no rewind button for life.

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

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