Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
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The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.
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The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
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Art is anything you can get away with.
