What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
