Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that

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. – Marshall McLuhan

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan

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Perhaps its good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if hes happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? – Aldous Huxley

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. – Golda Meir

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A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers. – Jerry Saltz

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – thats a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. – Christina Aguilera

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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cant tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings

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