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Nam June Paik Quotes

1932–2006

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a South Korean–born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art.

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I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Nam June Paik (1976)

Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.

Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.

Nam June Paik (1965)

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.

I want to shape the TV screen canvas

By using TV as a bra... the most intimate belonging of a human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers... to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.

Statement on TV Bra for a Living Scultpure (1969)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nam June Paik (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.