...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

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

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.