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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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan

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Propaganda
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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

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Technology
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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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Age
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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. – Austin OMalley

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. – Willie Nelson

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They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Art

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