[W]e cannot know the present or the new except by creating the m… — Speech at the U Texas-Stanford Symposium, 1966, taken from typescript, later appeared as a printed essay in The Meaning of Commercial Television, ed., Stanley Donner (1966)

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[W]e cannot know the present or the new except by creating the most ingenious devices. When Perseus wanted to confront the Gorgon he used a mirror. The mirror of art has been for Western man the prime means for confronting the present.

Speech at the U Texas-Stanford Symposium, 1966, taken from typescript, later appeared as a printed essay in The Meaning of Commercial Television, ed., Stanley Donner (1966)

Quote #5690

Year: 1966

Chapters: Environment | Present [The]

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