Mediums Quotes - Page 14

Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

Vik Muniz

Photography, Thinking, Way

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One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

Adrian Piper

Artist, Reason, Reactions

Adrian Piper (1974). “Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object”

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Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Photography, Art, Trying

Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications

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I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.

Fred Ritchin

Photography, Thinking, Historical

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Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem.

Thomas Roma

Photography, Trying, Form

Interview with Alex Klein, Bettina Shzu, www.museomagazine.com. 2000.

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In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

Thomas Ruff

Photography, Subjects

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I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

Mario Sorrenti

Photography, Trying, Canvas

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... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though I like to look at it.

Ezra Stoller

Photography, Art, Typewriters

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Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

Todd Walker

Photography, Forgiving, Cameras

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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Andrew Wyeth

Aim

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Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Ramana Maharshi

Silence, Speech, Language

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The Forbidden Room and Seances are related. Both of them are made up of lost film matter adapted through the medium of me and Evan, but the way they present themselves is totally different. One of them is this big Russian nesting doll of movie narratives and the other is much shorter experience on the internet.

Guy Maddin

Dolls, Different, Narrative

Source: thequietus.com

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I just respect audiences to understand that that's what goes on in movies. I just try to make movies that respect the intelligence of the audience. Respect that they understand that the narrator is always unreliable and respect that they understand that the medium can do whatever it wants.

Guy Maddin

Trying, Narrators, Goes On

Source: thequietus.com

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My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You research the characters and figure out the components of their look through your own vision. You create a color palette for a film, television or stage medium and discuss it with the director of photography who then lights your colored subjects.

Ruth E. Carter

Photography, Jobs, Character

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I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

Peter Menzel

Canon, Equipment, Format

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My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Luke Goss

Believe, Grandfather, Unseen

"Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.

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The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.

Robert Pinsky

Air, Voice, Sound

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Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

Thomas Beecham

Musical, World, Sound

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Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Edward Burtynsky

Photography, People, Stuff

"Edward Burtynsky's best shot". Interview with Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Doe, Delight, Playfulness

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... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book publishing saw it as a weird kind of potential book. But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing.

Paul Ford

Book, People, Magic

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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Alison Jackson

Photography, Believe, Complacency

"What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Greg Kinnear

Thinking, Skills, Careers

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Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.

James Madison

Men, Imperfection, Add

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.176, Coventry House Publishing

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I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.

W. J. T. Mitchell

Moving, Thinking, Sight

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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