Medium Quotes

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Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood,… — Andreas Feininger
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film… — Arthur Miller
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that… — Karen Joy Fowler
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in… — John Zachary Young
Photography is a generous mediumâ€¦ — Lee Friedlander
TVâ€”a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done. — Goodman Ace
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe… — Sam Mendes
A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself. — David Rusenko
Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous… — Herbert Spencer
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. — C. K. Prahalad
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave… — Marshall McLuhan
The 'content' of any medium is always another medium. — Marshall McLuhan
Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother… — John Ashcroft
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is… — Carl von Clausewitz
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood… — Hans Hofmann
I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger… — Daryl Hall
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly… — Ashley Kahn

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