Medium Quotes

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

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 a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

I would love Giuliana small, medium, large or extra large and I will love her no matter how much weight she gained.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

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 hold his work in low regard.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

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 at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.