The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.