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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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at drivers license age than at voting age. – Marshall McLuhan

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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking. – Jerry Saltz

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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. – Novalis

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