Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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, ongoi...
They will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.
The stars are so big,
The child was an invention of the seventeenth century; he did not exist in, say, Shakespeare's day. He had, up until that time, been merged in the adult world and there was nothing that could be calle...
It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a readiness to...
Money is the poor people's credit card.
if it works it's obsolete
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.
Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a soc...
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achie...
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
First we build the tools, then they build us.
The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
The ear favours no particular point of view.We are enveloped by sound.It forms a seamless web around us.We say, Music shall fill the air. We never say, Music shall fill a particular segment of the air...
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate
Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.