Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Technology
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Shopping
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan

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War
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – G.K. Chesterton

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Art

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. – Ben Okri

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Art

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise – all are now the norm, often edging out much else. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Category:
Flattery

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. – Andrew Jackson

Category:
Government

I didnt want to have braces when I was a kid and Im pretty sure my dad didnt want to pay for them. – Jessica Pare

Category:
dad

For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are…businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but — ominously — fewer and fewer people laugh at it. – Neil Ascherson

Category:
Economics