Laurie Anderson Quotes
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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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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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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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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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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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 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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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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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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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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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.