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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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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. – Marshall McLuhan

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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

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The beginning is the most important part of the work. – Plato

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. – George Santayana

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. – Albert Camus

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Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. – Terri Guillemets

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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. – Charles Simic

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