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?

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

Fish did not discover water.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.