“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Art
“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”
TechnologyAll Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
Travel“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
Nature“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
Future“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'”
Age“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Environmental“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
Art“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.”
Art“Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.”
Alone“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.”
Society“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.”
Technology“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”
Experience“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Art“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
Politics“Money is just the poor man's credit card.”
Money“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
Car“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
Technology“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.”
Technology“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.”
Age“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
Money