Medium Quotes

878 quotes by 747 authors

Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium;… — Stewart Brand
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of… — Edward Weston
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg
Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries,… — Stockwell Day
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,… — David Milne
The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I… — Elizabeth Barton
Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not… — Walter J. Phillips
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. — Walter J. Phillips
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation… — Jerry Uelsmann
Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way. — Jay Moore
For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how… — David Travis
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss… — Eric Maisel
The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping… — Tiffany Shlain
When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story… — Cyriac Roeding
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. — Andres Serrano
Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and… — Walt Disney
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. — Orson Welles
Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the… — Marcus Garvey
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken… — Buffalo Bill

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