A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

No painter, no musician ever did anything without extreme exaggeration of a form or a mode, until he had exaggerated those qualities that interested him.
“The Hot and Cool Interview with Gerald Stearn, in McLuhan: Hot & Cool: A Primer For The Understanding Of & A Critical Symposium With A Rebuttal By McLuhan ,(1967), p 277, reprinted in Marshall McLuhan Essays Media Research : Technology Art Communication, (1997), p 63
Year: 1967
Compiled by William Kuhns
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