Medium Quotes

• The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Reason
  • Violence
  • Script-writing

• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Like
  • TV
  • Medium

• Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Used

• The body is our general medium for having a world.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • World
  • Body
  • Medium

• I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Art
  • Song

• I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Doctors
  • Treatment
  • Medium

• I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Me
  • Open
  • Literally

• I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Poetry
  • Medium
  • Suck

• We are thinking through the medium and long-term needs here.

  

  Anthony Wayne
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Long-term

• I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Medium
  • Custom
  • Conventionalities

• If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Technology
  • Artists
  • Manufacturing

• I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Work
  • Challenge

• A medium is a bridge between two minds.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Bridge
  • Minds
  • Medium

• Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • World
  • Film
  • Medium

• Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

  

  Rebecca Romijn
  • Really
  • Making
  • Medium

• I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Hope
  • Filmmaker
  • Regurgitation

• Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."

  

  Whitney Otto
  • Personality
  • Successful
  • Possess

• Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Prayer
  • Miracles
  • Medium

• It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Medium
  • Possessed
  • Psychic

• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Work
  • Art
  • Experience

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