Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

— Marshall McLuhan

Electronic man has no physical body.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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