"Without electricity, there can be no art."

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Source : "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly, December 20, 2010.

Nam June Paik

#Art Quotes #Electricity Quotes

“By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.”
“There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.”
“The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.”

Source : WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.
“I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.”
“I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.”
“What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.”
“human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener”
“Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.”

Source : George Sydney Arundale (1973). “You”, Quest Books

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