In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

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

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties....

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

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?

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-perso n, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

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

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

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

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.

I've been fortunate enough to really work with amazing people and have incredible people lead me along the way.

I've been doing this close to 19 years now, and I always dreamed of being in the WWE.

I've learned to not have expectations. If you don't expect things from anyone, you can't get let down.

You can have a lot of fun playing a bad girl.

I had pretty much accepted the fact I was going to be a stay-at-home mom and do my other adventures in life. I thought coming back to the WWE was out of the cards for me.

The most significant thing is to always stay true to yourself. What brought you to where you are will continue to separate you. The thing is to be different.

I wanted to help my sister, Latoya, because she's an awesome cook. She's one of the best culinary people I've ever met. She makes awesome cakes, so I was thinking about starting a little coffee shop cafe where she could sell them. I want to open a little, small, mom-and-pop place, but she can also do catering, too.

I've had to put horses down on the farm before, and it's very, very sad.

My mom is my best friend. She's been my biggest supporter through everything.

I really think that some of the best heels are also those people that can really get reactions as babyfaces, too.

It kills me to watch bad wrestling; I can't do it.

I want to keep bettering myself.

I wanted to be one of the best in the business, whether it was male or female.

I spent two and a half years in Louisville, and I loved it.

I don't really look at myself as a mentor.

I'm a big fan of Snoop Dogg - he was super-hot when I was in high school - but I also listen to a lot of Tim McGraw.

I am very much a perfectionist, so if I were to turn heel, I'd want to be the nastiest girls out there, where the people hated me.

I could never see Jeff Hardy as a bad guy, because I just want to hug him. He's an awesome person and super multi-talented.

I have known Kofi for such a long time. We were in developmental together in Louisville.

There was a match in Alaska that I had with Beth Phoenix at a house show where we had a standing ovation from Ric Flair, Triple H, John Cena, and Arn Anderson. I got to work with her so much that we knew each other's body language. Got a standing ovation from the entire locker room. It was amazing.

I don't really follow MMA.