It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
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?
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration...
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
Electronic man has no physical body.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
The media have substituted themselves for the older world.
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.
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.
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.
Today’s child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up – thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.