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

— Nam June Paik

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Source: In interview with a Korean newspaper, quoted in: KoreAm Journal, Vol. 17 (2006), p. 79
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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