Mediums Quotes · Page 5

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

— Peter Greenaway

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

— Cillian Murphy

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

— Kemp Muhl

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

— Hoodie Allen

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

— Richard Dawkins

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

— Robert Motherwell

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

— Perry Christie

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled…

— Dick Cavett

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication…

— Richard Leakey

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

— Annie Leibovitz

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the…

— Andy Grundberg

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium…

— Walter Benjamin

It's very, very technical, what we do in film. While all of the lights are there and all of the crew members…

— Jeffrey Donovan

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families,…

— Jeff Corwin

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford…

— Anonymous

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera…

— Matt LeBlanc

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]…

— John Steinbeck

I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in…

— Kenneth Patchen

I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.…

— Mirah

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings.…

— Ramana Maharshi

I'd love to do more TV, but I'd love to get into more feature films. I'd also love to go back to…

— Mariana Klaveno

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group…

— Ashley Kahn

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works…

— Betty Friedan

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in…

— Tillie Olsen

If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But…

— Eleanora Duse

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new…

— Tori Amos

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep."…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down…

— Francine Prose

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

— Ian Ziering

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

— Bing Gordon

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

— Thomas Ruff

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

— Christopher Eccleston

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

— Harold Town

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want…

— Chris Klein

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

— Alice Walker

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

— Helen Gurley Brown