Mediums Quotes - Page 39

• Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.

  Ted Nelson

  Book, Cutting, People

  "Computer Lib/Dream Machines". Book by Ted Nelson, 1974.

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• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Communication, Government

  "Tactical Reflections" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org.

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• Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Matter, Finite, Our Lives

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Profane, Left

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1721, Random House

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• I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Comedian, Actors

  "Nonfamily Humor, Straight From Home". Interview with Joseph P. Kahn, archive.boston.com. February 13, 2008.

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• You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

  Ron Parker

  Matter, Painting, Methodology

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• Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

  Donald Lambert

  Technology, Artist, Smell

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• Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.

  Alton Tobey

  Art, Brotherhood, Lenses

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• So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.

  Nelson Shanks

  Color, Trying, Form

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• Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Creating, Water

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• To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

  Liu Dan

  Names, Signatures, Use

  "Conversation with Liu Dan". Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

  William C. Wright

  Trying, Degrees, Realist

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• Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Mean, Exercise, Men

  William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.39

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• Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Powerful, Hands

  Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis

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• In the silence
  that is his chosen medium
  of communication and telling
  others about it
  in words. Is there no way
  not to be the sport
  of reason?

  R. S. Thomas

  Sports, Communication, Silence

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

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• The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

  Manuel Castells

  Communication, Firsts, Internet

  "The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society". Book by Manuel Castells, 2001.

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• An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Religious, Prayer, Inspiration

  "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.

  Susan McClary

  Feelings, Important, Desire

  "Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology". Book by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas, 1994.

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• I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

  Alan Moore

  Comic, Despise, Industry

  New York Press Interview, June 15, 2006.

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• There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.

  China Mieville

  Death, Knowing, Doors

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• Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

  Julian Jaynes

  Memories, Has Beens

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Class, Able, Firsts

  "Music for the Movies". Book by Tony Thomas, p. 209, 1973.

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• The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and indeed the fact of appraisal appears to be peculiar to certain types of media. A change in the type of medium implies a change in the type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one civilization to understand another.

  Harold Innis

  Mean, Media, Civilization

  Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.

  Harold Innis

  Communication, Character, Civilization

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press

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