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Visual Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds
- Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
- Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in…
- New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake…
More Visual Quotes
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs
- So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and… — Sophia Bush
- Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves… — Joan E. Biren
- More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good… — Lars von Trier
- Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
- The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by… — Lewis Mumford