Laurie Anderson Quotes
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
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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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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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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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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.