Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Journey

• 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

  Art, Dew, Culture

• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

• The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Men, Fields

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Wisdom, Art, Errors

  Marshall McLuhan (2015). “Culture Is Our Business”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Psychics

• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Get Away, Artist

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

• Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Eye, Magic

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Intelligent, People

• It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Environment, Works Of Art

• During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Pain, War

• In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Modern, Vulgar

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.125, University of Toronto Press

• What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Perception, Specialists

• As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Information, Environment

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

• I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Men, Space

• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Media

• Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Museums, Innovation

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world”

• If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Technology

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

• If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Action, Painting

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

• The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Communication, Feelings

  "Essential McLuhan" edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, (p. 73), 1995.

• I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Order

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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