Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

I am so inspired by new media.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

I believe films are the mirror of society we live in.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own and make their own assumptions.