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...
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 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...
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...
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
First we build the tools, then they build us.
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.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to t...
Money is the poor people's credit card.
The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.
In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the...
I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.
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.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a...
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.
Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, Why do you kids use ‘cool’ to mean ‘hot’? The friend replied, Because you folks used up the word ‘hot’ before we came along.