Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, making particular use of language, technology, and visual imagery. She became widely more known outside the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 June 1947
CityGlen Ellyn, IL
CountryUnited States of America
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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.
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
I'm a real workaholic.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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.
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
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.
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.