Mediums Quotes

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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
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach… — Edward Weston
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe.… — Garry Winogrand
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours… — Sadakichi Hartmann
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art… — Susan Sontag
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White
The subject comes first, the medium second. — Richard Prince
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they… — Irving Fisher
About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult… — Donald Bradman
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of… — James Madison
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and… — James Madison
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an… — Abraham Lincoln
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,… — Abraham Lincoln
On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an… — Immanuel Wallerstein
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole

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