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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.
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The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
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For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.
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I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
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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.
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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.
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I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.
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There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.
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The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
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The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
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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.
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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.
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While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
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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.
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No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.
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There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
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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.
