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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

Tamara Tunie

#6. 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

#7. Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...

Aphra Behn

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

Aphra Behn

#12. I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

Eric Andre

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

Tom Skerritt

#16. 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

#17. Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Steven Bochco

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

Ian Ziering

#21. Nobody does anything for anybody my friend. We just become mediums to bring each other what destiny has already ordained.

Amit Pandey

#22. I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

Bing Gordon

#23. 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

#24. Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn't stand a chance.

Paul Rudnick

#25. I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Michael Jackson

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

Aphra Behn

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.

Tom Wlaschiha

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...

Nancy Mitford

#46. Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

Spike Jonze

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

Camille Pissarro

#54. I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Edward Hopper

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.

Tom Bissell

#59. I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Greg Kinnear

#60. Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

Barry Hannah

#61. True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

Douglas Haddow

#62. I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.

Billy Porter

#63. Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

Joe Morton

#64. I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

Katie Finneran

#65. W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.

J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous.

~Wharton; Jessop

Agatha Christie

#66. Some contemporary mediums dislike the term 'psychic' because they feel it carries a negative connotation, leading people to associations with crystal balls, tea-leaf reading, fortune-telling, or other stereotypes.

Mark Ireland

#67. Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.

Walt Disney

#68. For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

John Lithgow

#69. I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Doug Aitken

#70. I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.

Matt Squire

#71. We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#72. I've been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

Andy Serkis

#73. I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Robin Trower

#74. You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

Anna Paquin

#75. I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Jonathan Lethem

#76. Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

Marina And The Diamonds

#77. If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery.

Laura Marling

#78. Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

Nita Engle

#79. Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums
movies, television series and books
for sources of inspiration.

Sam Lake

#80. The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.

Julie Halston

#81. Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums - and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.

Charles De Lint

#82. It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

Bill Henson

#83. How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

H. P. Blavatsky

#84. In a culture of silence Let the pen be your weapon The ink is permanent and can transcend emotions and stories across mediums into the future Weaponize your pen and destroy The culture of silence My

Nnennaya Amuchie

#85. Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

Mark Cuban

#86. Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Chuck Close

#87. Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Rumi

#88. Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.

Tom Bissell

#89. I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

Amy Smart

#90. I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

Judith Anderson

#91. I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

Danny Wallace

#92. I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

Adi Shankar

#93. I grew up with comic books and cartoons and action movies. To find myself in the position to do work in these mediums is just an opportunity I couldn't have even asked for. It's just pure luck, really.

Hoon Lee

#94. Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#95. It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

Rose McIver

#96. All writers read, Ms Rainn. With dwindling amounts of books circulating imagination, the less writers of all mediums will be able to exercise their own imaginations.

S.A. Tawks

#97. I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

Judah Friedlander

#98. And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill

#99. Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

Taye Diggs

#100. Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal ...

Henry David Thoreau