Mediums Quotes - Page 4

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, World, Fantasy

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• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Ice Water, Water Of Life

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• I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, White

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Believe, Needs, Way

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

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Tactics, Rehabilitation

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• The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

  Gustav Mahler

  Spirit, Form, Clear

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• I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

  Henri Matisse

  Has Beens

  "Smithsonian" Magazine, November 1986.

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• The medium is the message.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hippie, Messages

  Understanding Media title of ch. 1 (1964)

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• I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Information, Entertainment

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• I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

  Harold Ramis

  Spiritual, Believe, Passion

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Giving, Feelings

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• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Views, Evil, Achievement

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

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

  Kiana Tom

  Friends, Painting, Enjoy

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• One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.

  Gloria Swanson

  Watches, Care, Tvs

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• I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

  Ben Shahn

  Photography, Choices, Feels

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• Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

  Matt Drudge

  Thinking, Gossip, Labels

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

  Melissa Bean

  Jobs, Community, Growth

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• The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

  John Doolittle

  United States, Today, Way

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• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Written

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• 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.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Perfect

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• They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Personality, Revelations

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

  Anna Paquin

  Marketing, Liberty, Different

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Feelings, Reason

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan Buddington Phillips, January 1, 1960.

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