"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."
Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
"Art is anything you can get away with."
"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."
"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"