Laurie Anderson Quotes
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
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It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
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Freedom is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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Art is about paying attention.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."
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Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.
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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.