Quotes
Authors
Actors
Artists
Home
Authors
Marshall McLuhan
Quote
Famous quote by
Marshall McLuhan
Mobile
Desktop
Like
"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"
- Marshall McLuhan
Culture
Art
About the Author
This quote is written / told by
Marshall McLuhan
between July 21, 1911 and December 31, 1980. He/she was a famous
Sociologist
from
Canada
. The author also have
53 other quotes
.
Go to author profile
Similar Quotes
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"
Voltaire, Writer
"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"
Edgar A. Shoaff
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Art raises its head where creeds relax"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"The true art of memory is the art of attention"
Samuel Johnson, Author