Logo
Quote by Marshall McLuhan
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, 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

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Society
Author
Marshall McLuhan
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Author
Marshall McLuhan
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Art is science made clear. – Wilson Mizner

Category:
Art

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler

Category:
Art

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Art

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read – those are important to me. Its very important to me, and I dont know what I would do without those things. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Category:
movies

I dont think its necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck. – Anjelica Huston

Category:
relationship

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. – Les Brown

Category:
Goals

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. – S.J. Perelman, Acres and Pains, 1951

Category:
Gardens