Nam June Paik

“The real issue is not contemporary art, but the essence of art.”

“The future is now.”

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

“I use technology in order to hate it more properly.”

“As the collage technique replaced oil paint, the cathode ray tube will replace the canvas.”

“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good.”

“Television has been attacking us all our lives, now we can attack it back.”

“I make technology ridiculous.”

“Without electricity, there can be no art.”

“Someday, artists will work with capacitors, resistors, and semiconductors as they work today with brushes, violins, and junk.”

“There is no rewind button for the BETAMAX of life.”

“I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining.”

“If you are a media artist, you can be a lazy person.”

“Cyberspace. A new continent in our imagination.”