We have indicated earlier that all human artifacts are extensions of man, outerings or utterings of the human body or psyche, private or corporate.
The Global Village with Bruce Powers (1989), p 20
…every mode of technology is a reflex of our most intimate psychological experience. The pointillage of Seurat is a derivative of Humean association psychology and exfoliates again in modern wire-photos. Movie technique has obvious relations with the panoramic devices of Scott or Tolstoy.
“Inside Blake and Hollywood” (1947), Sewanee Review, October, 1947, p 714.
Year: 1947
Compiled by William Kuhns
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