Medium Quotes
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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
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TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
Elia Kazan
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If your business isn’t optimised for mobile, it might as well be invisible. Mobile isn’t going to be a medium. It’s going to be the medium.
Edward Boches
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Theater really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it.
Catherine McCormack
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... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.
Ezra Stoller
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The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
Lauren Bacall
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I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs
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Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
Will Eisner
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I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
Joshua Micah Marshall
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I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
Ansel Adams
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
Alexander McQueen
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There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.
Bill Henson
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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
Josh Hutcherson
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To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.
Brian Henson
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I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.
Roberto Aguire
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The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
Grace Slick Starship
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While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
Nick Denton
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So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.
Nelson Shanks
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I suppose I ought to describe my father, but it isn't easy. Sometimes over the years he seemed one thing and sometimes another. He was a good-looking man, strong and ruddy. When I was little he seemed tall to me, but by the time I was thirteen he had become medium.
Edith Konecky
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I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.
Hank Stuever
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I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
Will Eisner
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I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
Rick Rubin
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That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.
Steven Johnson