Quotes about vision




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"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Baudrillard, Jean on vision    Share


"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you."

Baudrillard, Jean on vision    Share

"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract."

Brokaw, Tom on vision    Share

"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust."

Dali, Salvador on vision    Share

"Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect."

Day, Sir Robin on vision    Share

"So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on vision    Share

"It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."

Eliot, T. S. on vision    Share

"Let's face it, there are no plain women on television."

Ford, Anna on vision    Share

"I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face."

Fox, Michael J. on vision    Share

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house."

Frost, David on vision    Share

"Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator."

Fumaroli, Marc on vision    Share

"A three -- to four -- to five-hour experience with nothingness."

Glezer, Frederic on vision    Share

"There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on vision    Share

"Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs."

Hitchcock, Alfred on vision    Share

"Television is becoming a collage -- there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

Hockney, David on vision    Share

"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."

Hutchins, Robert M. on vision    Share

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

James, Clive on vision
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"Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory."

Kaplan, Justin on vision    Share

"Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."

Kovacs on vision
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."

Lebowitz, Fran on vision    Share

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."

Mailer, Norman on vision    Share

"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

Marx, Groucho on vision
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"I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot."

Midler, Bette on vision    Share

"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."

Miller, Arthur on vision    Share

"Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on vision    Share

"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."

Murdoch, Rupert on vision    Share

"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."

O'Brien, Conor Cruise on vision    Share

"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."

Paglia, Camille on vision    Share

"Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

Priestley, J. B. on vision    Share

"The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?"

Raphael, Frederic on vision    Share

"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one."

Rather, Dan on vision    Share

"The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television."

Ross, Andrew on vision    Share

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

Sarraute, Nathalie on vision    Share

"People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong."

Sawyer, Diane on vision    Share

"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

Simpson, Homer on vision
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