Mediums Quotes

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Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. — Alan Kay
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals… — Eric Hoffer
Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work… — Bill Watterson
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost. — Dalai Lama
It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even… — Jean Baudrillard
A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. — Ian Fleming
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing… — John Berger
Music appeals to me for what can be done with it. — Leopold Stokowski
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of… — David Hume
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being... — Robert Motherwell
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium. — Robert Motherwell
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and… — Andrew Wyeth
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and… — Ben Shahn
Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than… — Alain de Botton
People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are… — Daniel Dennett
In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other… — Stan Smith
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

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