Medium Quotes

878 quotes by 747 authors

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a… — Lee Friedlander
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living… — Will Self
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will… — Mercy Otis Warren
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can… — Thomas Jefferson
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… — Thomas Jefferson
Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned… — Thomas Jefferson
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. â€¦ In photography, you start with the… — Stephen Shore
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… — Chinua Achebe
My medium is prose, not the novel. — David Shields
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanityâ€™s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception… — Walter Benjamin
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring… — Robert Fitzgerald
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past,… — Clifford D. Simak
No other art-mediumâ€“neither painting nor poetryâ€“can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in… — Ingmar Bergman
There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to… — Fanny Burney
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any… — Renata Adler
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I… — Jerzy Kosinski
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. — Plato
From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them,… — Louis Pullig De Gouy

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