It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the...

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...

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...

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.

I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say.

All media work us over completely.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

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...

Art is anything you can get away with.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical bodies...

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

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 achieving such a ratio or...

By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you aren’t going somewhere, you’re already there. On the telephone you’re not going somewhere, you’re there. And...

Art is whatever you can get away with.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

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,...

First we build the tools, then they build us.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every...

if it works it’s obsolete

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the...

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 antisocial types in their...

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.