When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.
The age of automation is going to be the age of “do it yourself”.
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.
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Our technology forces us to live mythically.
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
All advertising advertises advertising.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
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.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.