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  • What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

    Art   Media   Political  
    "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Poet & The City"), (p. 83), 1962.
  • I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

    Song   Gone   Snapshots  
  • Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered in the mass consumption of hypnotic mechanized vulgarity, the need to confront man with the reality of his situation is greater than ever. For the dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its senselessness; to accept it freely, without fear, without illusions - and to laugh at it.

    Baby   Lying   Reality  
    Martin Esslin (2009). “The Theatre of the Absurd”, p.429, Vintage
  • Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

    Art   Mean   Impact  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

    Order   Needs   Paper  
  • I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

    Clothes   People   Design  
    Source: www.newyorker.com
  • Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

    Art   Demand   Messages  
    Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press
  • The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

  • Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

    Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press
  • I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.

    Thinking   Years   People  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

    "Future Speak". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. March 1, 1999.
  • Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

  • With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

    Artist   America   Goal  
    Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
  • As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with buying power. ... Instead of achieving that kind of distribution, a giant suction pump had by 1929-30 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. ... The other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.

    Men   Hands   Games  
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