"By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you aren’t going somewhere, you’re already there. On th...












Art is whatever you can get away with.

More Marshall McLuhan quotes
"The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among ...
"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.
"The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precio...
"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
"Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid ch...
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
"The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.
"It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have fai...
"All media work us over completely.
"With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree th...
"Art is anything you can get away with.