Medium Quotes
878 quotes by 747 authors
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We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
— Carl Bereiter
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This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a…
— Alec Soth
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the…
— Socrates
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The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing…
— Joseph Salerno
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The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as…
— R. U. Sirius
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It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.
— Tom Standage
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I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
— Dennis Cooper
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Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.
— Alec Soth
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That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.
— Steven Johnson
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Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
— Thomas Jefferson
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may…
— Truman Capote
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We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate…
— Meg Whitman
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much…
— Edward Sapir
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I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t want…
— David Ogilvy
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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the…
— Michel Serres
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When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me,…
— John Lennon
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very…
— Pipilotti Rist
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My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium…
— Mathew Brady
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