#tell

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#call #different #different language #every #great

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#art #beginning #culture #dew #distant

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#get #graph #know #producers #public

That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#back #comes #doing #falls #feeling

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#going #i #i do #intellectual #know

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #i do #intellectual #ones #only

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#apologize #being #come #curtain #decent

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#best #best way #change #climate #climate change

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#imagination #intelligence #requires #true

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#better #christianity #faiths #fight #fundamentalism