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- 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…
- If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might…
- By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds
- The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and…
- What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
- Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of…
- The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the…
- An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of…
- I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time…
- The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
- On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect…
- Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.
- Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture…
- The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension…
- As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable…
- We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
- Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their…
- In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
- Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on…
- We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
- The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an art…
- 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 the…
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