Quotes By Marshall McLuhan

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

The medium is the message.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.