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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

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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. – George Jean Nathan, House of Satan

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