Nam June Paik Quotes

All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

There is nothing so stable as change.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Change alone is unchanging.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Everything changes but change.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Land really is the best art.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

I believe the only thing constant in life is change. That's just the way it is, no?

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.