A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

But the artist differs from most people in his power to arrest and then reverse the stages of human apprehension. He learns how to embody the stages of cognition.
“Sight, Sound and the Fury”, in The Commonweal, 1954, p 493
Quote #1164
Year: 1954
Chapter: Cognition and Recognition
Compiled by William Kuhns
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