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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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because were not pure enough, good omens appear. – Jerry Saltz

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I owe much to mother. She had an experts understanding, but also approached art emotionally. – David Rockefeller

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I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but Im really bad at it. Im just a terrible drawer. I cant draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I cant draw a straight line. – Daniel Radcliffe

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

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Its a very good historical book about history. – Dan Quayle

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I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. Im fine with that. – Rainn Wilson

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I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted. – Bryan Cranston

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Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. – Lawrence Welk

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