Mediums Quotes - Page 12

• The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.

  Arthur Koestler

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Essence, Becoming, Use

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it's some sort of art medium, and it's not. Others think it's an entertainment medium, it's not that either. It's an advertising medium. It's a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.

  Bill Maher

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Magazines are another medium I love, because 95% is simply based on 'How the hell are we going to fill all this blank space?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Love Is, Space, Magazines

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• You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!

  Cecil Beaton

  Photography, Taken, People

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• Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

  Salvador Dali

  Mean, Reality, Osmosis

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• Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American.

  Demetri Martin

  Interesting, Adjectives, Size

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• Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

  Brian Eno

  Black And White, Signatures, Events

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• The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Mean, Light, Fundamentals

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• Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Lying, Battle

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• Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.

  Clement Greenberg

  Photography, Art, Men

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1988). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949”, p.60, University of Chicago Press

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• Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.

  Bill Brandt

  Sports, Photography, Fads

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• The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Media, Different

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• It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Definitions, Impossible

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• The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

  Alex Abreu

  Artist, Boys, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for real creation: graphic creation, pictorial creation, or audiovisual creation. If we really want to use the art of animation with all its strength, we have to rethink the processes by which it's made because the medium is the message.

  Alex Abreu

  Art, Real, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

  Frank Ocean

  Moving, Artist, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Fashion, Young Generation, Generations

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• To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.

  Tina Modotti

  Photography, Appreciation, Art

  Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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• Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the camera, takes its place as the most satisfactory medium for registering objective life in all its aspects, and from this comes its documental value. If to this is added sensibility and understanding and, above all, a clear orientation as to the place it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something worthy of a place in social production, to which we should all contribute.

  Tina Modotti

  Photography, Believe, Should Have

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• The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.

  Tina Modotti

  Expression, Should Have, Giving

  Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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• If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

  Bob Saget

  Done, Messages, Theory

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• ...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Profound, Answers, May

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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• Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

  Hans Haacke

  Photography, Tasks, Use

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