Marshall McLuhan Quotes about Perception

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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Marshall McLuhan

Media, Perception, Arbitrary

Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

Marshall McLuhan

Mother, Children, Perception

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

Marshall McLuhan

Artist, Media, Perception

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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

Marshall McLuhan

Artist, Perception, Training

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Marshall McLuhan

Perception, Incarnation, Humans

Howard Rollin Patch, Walter J. Ong, Marshall McLuhan (1954). “Christian humanism in leters”

What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.

Marshall McLuhan

Art, Perception, Specialists

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Marshall McLuhan

Expression, Play, Perception

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Marshall McLuhan

Mean, Perception, Language

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.183, University of Toronto Press

Marshall McLuhan Quotes about Perception

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