Mediums Quotes · Page 14

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

— Alan Kay

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

— Rebecca Hall

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

— Seth Godin

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

— Stephen King

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

— Gabrielle Roth

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

— Todd Walker

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

— Henry David Thoreau

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

— Seth

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful,…

— Pauline Kael

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of…

— James Clerk Maxwell

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may…

— Chris Hardwick

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

— Isadora Duncan

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite…

— Ayelet Waldman

Soaps might not be the most highly regarding medium but it was a crucial springboard for me and I am forever grateful…

— Sherri Saum

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

— Jonathan Lethem

It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium…

— Robert B. Laughlin

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might…

— Danny Wallace

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work…

— Rupert Holmes

A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality,…

— Whitney Otto

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of…

— John James Audubon

I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very…

— Lee Krasner

The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render…

— Josiah Warren

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

— Goodman Ace

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I hope to kind of revolutionize and kind of rewrite a lot of what people think of when they think of mediums.

— Tyler Henry

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

— C. K. Prahalad

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

— Alan Moore

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

— Chris Rock

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

— Dan Harmon

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

— Spike Jonze

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

— Walt Disney

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

— Oliver Herford

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

— Lee Klein

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

— Camille Pissarro

The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

— Kurt Schwitters

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb