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.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely well-adjusted, he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antiso...
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social...
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
First we build the tools, then they build us.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
if it works it's obsolete
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.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.
Art is anything you can get away with.
You and I are faced with one of those situations (which fortunately are not very numerous in one lifetime) which cannot possibly be adequately judged beforehand. It strikes me as a colossal gamble, or...
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.
The stars are so big,
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Money is the poor people's credit card.