Laurie Anderson Quotes
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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 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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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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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Art is about paying attention.
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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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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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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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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
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Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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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.