“The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.”
“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
“Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
Marshall McLuhan