Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.