Quote

Nobody can commit photography alone.

Marshall McLuhan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall Mac Luhan
Nobody
Alone
Commit
Photography

More quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Image
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the Tower of Babel by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
Language is a form of organized stutter.
Marshall McLuhan
Image
... Their power to see environments as they really are.
Marshall McLuhan