Medium Quotes

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It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion. — Christopher Locke
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
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. — Clement Mok
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible… — J. G. A. Pocock
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work… — Flannery O'Connor
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well… — Ray Bradbury
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. — Berenice Abbott
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not… — Edward Steichen
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. — Bill Brandt
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature. — Paul Caponigro
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And… — David Hurn
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here… — Paul Strand

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