Quotes from Nam June Paik

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.

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

There is no rewind button for life.

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

The future is now.

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

Without electricity, there can be no art.

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

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

I bet there are still many openings and loopholes in art history ... which are being overlooked right now by millions of young people who complain that everything has already been done, so that they cannot do new breakthroughs. However, the history of the world says that we don't win the games, but we change the rules of the games.

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