Mediums Quotes
769 quotes by 652 authors
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Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
— Robert Pinsky
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The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.…
— Robert Pinsky
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The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the…
— Jenny Saville
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Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a…
— Mark Waid
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
— Irving Thalberg
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Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the…
— Jim Rogers
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must…
— Oliver Lodge
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Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for…
— Jacque Fresco
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If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if…
— Christine Lagarde
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
— Benjamin Rush
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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
— Sean Lennon
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I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to…
— Nancy Johnson
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications…
— Danny Hillis
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My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the…
— Neil Postman
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang…
— Rudy Rucker
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I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong…
— Chip Kidd
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Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with the environment. Really…
— Mark Jenkins
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Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
— Preston Sturges
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Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's…
— Laura Ziskin
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses…
— Edward Hirsch
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