Marshall McLuhan Quotes

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Art is anything you can get away with.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function.

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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.