Top 100 Quotes About Mediums
#1. All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
Alison Mosshart
#2. By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
Stephen King
#3. What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.
Marc E. Platt
#4. Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
Douglas Coupland
#5. I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
Samira Wiley
#6. Like JJ Abrams, creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story. Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#9. The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
Tamara Tunie
#10. In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
Thomas Ruff
#11. We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days
our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
A.S.A Harrison
#12. Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...
Aphra Behn
#13. I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
Rashid Johnson
#14. And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
Duane Michals
#15. Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
Lauren Bacall
#17. I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#18. Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
Emma Goldman
#19. The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.
Hans Hofmann
#20. I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
Laurence Fishburne
#21. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.
Aphra Behn
#23. Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
Clive Owen
#24. I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.
Eric Andre
#25. The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going to go into philosophy ... and suddenly I found this way to combine that with my love for visual mediums.
Andrew Neel
#26. I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
Paul McCartney
#27. The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.
Kurt Schwitters
#28. An artist's job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master - be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.
Anonymous
#29. Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.
Greta Gerwig
#30. It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.
Francis Bacon
#31. TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
Tom Skerritt
#34. Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
Chris Rock
#35. One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.
Julie Taymor
#36. Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Steven Bochco
#37. If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.
Dalai Lama
#38. It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.
Arnold Arre
#39. I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.
Dave Gibbons
#40. Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
Robert Motherwell
#41. Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation ... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
Geoffrey Batchen
#42. I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.
Ian Ziering
#43. Nobody does anything for anybody my friend. We just become mediums to bring each other what destiny has already ordained.
Amit Pandey
#44. I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.
Bing Gordon
#45. I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.
Denzel Washington
#46. I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.
Seungri
#47. I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.
Alan Moore
#48. I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.
Amy Hempel
#49. Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn't stand a chance.
Paul Rudnick
#50. I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Michael Jackson
#51. One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
Doug Aitken
#52. In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.
Peter C Bunnell
#53. My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.
Ralph Gibson
#54. My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.
Charlton Heston
#55. I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.
Doug TenNapel
#56. I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
Anton Yelchin
#57. The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
Marshall McLuhan
#58. I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.
Chris Matakas
#59. Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens.
Isaac Newton
#60. The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
Christina Ricci
#61. The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
Jeff Bezos
#62. The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.
Alex Gibney
#63. In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
Garret Dillahunt
#64. I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
Harold Ramis
#65. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.
Alan Ball
#67. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.
Aphra Behn
#68. There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
Horace
#69. Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.
Richard Schmid
#70. I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
Carrie Brownstein
#71. Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.
Tom Wlaschiha
#72. I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#73. I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums.
Jonathan Hickman
#74. When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.
Brian J. White
#75. I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.
Carrie Brownstein
#76. The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
Joseph O'Neill
#77. Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.
Jake Epstein
#78. I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.
Jeff Britting
#79. Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
Nancy Mitford
#80. Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
Spike Jonze
#81. What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
Justin Simien
#82. Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.
Robert A. Lovett
#83. Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.
Hallie Flanagan
#84. Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.
Diana Jane Heath
#85. I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.
Doug Aitken
#86. Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.
Idris Elba
#87. I played a medium on 'Ghost Whisperer' for six years, and the mediums never complained at the fact that I had cleavage while I was crossing people over into the light. In fact, they were super-excited that a hot person was out there representing the medium.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#88. Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
C.S. Lewis
#89. Television is the medium of the 20th century.
Hugh Downs
#90. Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
Charles James
#92. Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Camille Pissarro
#93. I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper
#94. At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.
Betty Shine
#95. The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.
Tina Modotti
#96. A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
Robert Motherwell
#97. I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.
Jonathan Meades
#98. Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.
Alex Blumberg
#99. When we started Angels & Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.
Tom DeLonge
#100. There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.
Tom Bissell
