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Marshall McLuhan was a renowned Canadian philosopher, communication theorist, and media theorist whose theories had a profound impact on modern media and communication technologies. His famous 'The Medium is the Message' theory, among others, has influenced the fields of advertising, film, television, and the internet.

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“The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.”

Persons Artist Perception Training Experts

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.”

May Mean Play Artist Attitude Audience Majority Experiments Fixed Arranging

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.”

Art Artist Modern Vulgar Speculation Modern Art

Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy

“It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it”

Use Artist Realizing

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?”

People Ifs Art Able Artist Next Social Technology Art Is Consequence Convinced Precise Psychics

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“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.”

World Mean Art Real Purpose Artist Social Modern Unity Affair Valuable Insight Technique Collectives Technological Modern World

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

Art Artist Art Is Get Away Art And Artists Inspiration And Art

Author:Marshall McLuhan

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

Firsts Lasts Artist Creative Taste Refuge Good Taste

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“The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.”

Wells Artist Media Poet Perception Currents Trends Antisocial

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.”

Mean Persons Artist Environment Media Innovation Bridges Technological Inheritance

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.”

Men Art Action Artist Awareness Fields He Man Implications Humanistic New Knowledge

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.”

Artist Social Criminals Explorers

Author:Marshall McLuhan

About the Author

Born: July 21, 1911
Died: December 31, 1980
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 398

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Understanding media: the extensions of manRelated source material

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