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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. – Marshall McLuhan

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Experience
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

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communication
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. – Jackson Pollock

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno

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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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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. – Dorothy Day

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The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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