Authors — Quotes

Marshall McLuhan Quotes: 8

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.
Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man
Art is whatever you can get away with.
The Medium is the Massage