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• Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

  Thomas Paine

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  1791-2 The Rights of Man.

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• There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

  Booker T. Washington

  Get Well, Mean, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Skulls, Childhood, Parent

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• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Art, Humorous

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Might, Photographer

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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 cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Squirrels, Long

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• 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. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Thinking, Two

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• The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

  George Santayana

  Real, History, Theatre

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.84, Indiana University Press

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• For more than two thousand years gold's natural qualities made it man's universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Men, Years, Two

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• While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

  Jet Li

  Emotional, Unique, Games

  Interview with Douglass C. Perry, www.ign.com. February 5, 2004.

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• There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

  Ernie Kovacs

  Succeed, Entertainment, Beats

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• To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Self, Space

  ART-news, 56. no. 4, 1957.

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• The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

  Steve McCurry

  Powerful, Single Mom, Unique

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• I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dog, Uncles

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• Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

  Socrates

  Errors, People, Deception

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• I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

  Dennis Cooper

  Thinking, Rich, Pornography

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• Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Photography, Lonely

  "Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth". Interview with Bartholomew Ryan, walkerart.org. August 31, 2010.

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• When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Joy

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• When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

  Storm Thorgerson

  Photography, Art, Real

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

  Hannibal Buress

  Chicago, Kind, Hometown

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There mart be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then; with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expand our minds, strengthens our hopes and and fills our hearts with supreme delight.

  Nikola Tesla

  Moving, Heart, Light

  "The Nikola Tesla Treasury".

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• For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Expression, Artistic

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• People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Communication, Inspiration

  "The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

  Edward Hirsch

  Different, Use, Speech

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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