The job of art is not to store moments of 
experience but to explore environments that are 
otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of 
precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, 
ongoing function.

G.E. Stearn, “A Dialogue—Marshall McLuhan and 
G.E. Stearn,” in McLuhan: Hot & Cool , edited by G.E. 
Stearn, (New York, 1967), p. 285.