Mediums Quotes · Page 9

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

— George Eliot

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

— James Surowiecki

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

— Barbara Kruger

How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.

— Patrick Vlaskovits

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

— Bruce Joel Rubin

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

— Jimmy Smits

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

— Gene Kelly

With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That…

— Petra Collins

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself…

— Paul Caponigro

In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from…

— Dennis Cooper

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in…

— Grant Bowler

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

— William Shenstone

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

— Betty Goodwin

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can…

— Jerry Goldsmith

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…

— Thomas Paine

The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,…

— Edward Weston

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that…

— Andreas Feininger

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against…

— Thomas Paine

Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach…

— Matt Mullenweg

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have…

— Marc Maron

Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When…

— Shiloh Fernandez

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all…

— Anonymous

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each…

— Logan Lerman

What's neat about TV is you get really rich, an opportunity to tell really rich stories over the course of 20 hours.…

— Chris Pratt

Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation.…

— Jim Carroll

Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before…

— Bill Watterson

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and…

— Paul Strand

I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because…

— Andrew Aydin

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.

— Peter Schjeldahl

If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

— James Van Praagh

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

— Daniel Clowes

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

— Philip Zimbardo

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

— Thomas Beecham

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

— Tom Sturridge

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

— Dan Harmon

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

— Yoko Ono