Nam June Paik

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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
Collection: War
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Technology
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The future is now.
- Nam June Paik
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Art
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Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Beautiful
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The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Culture
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An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Artist
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The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Rays
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When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Perfect
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There is no rewind button for life.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Buttons
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The only way to win a race is to run alone.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Running
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There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.
- Nam June Paik
Collection: Buttons