Mediums Quotes - Page 3

• I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

  Patrick Troughton

  Thinking, Space, Mind

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

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• We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

  Josef Albers

  Motivational, Art, Color

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• I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

  Sam Mendes

  Believe, Thinking, Directors

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Ballpoint Pens, Draws, Stills

  "Goodbye cruel Slough" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.

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• Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

  Story Musgrave

  Writing, Prose Poetry, Different

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

  Seamus Heaney

  Lyric Poetry, Facts, Truthfulness

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.429, Macmillan

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• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Paint, Fine

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• Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

  John Lasseter

  Cinema, Audience

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reality, Organization, Decision

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• There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Being Happy

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• Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Inspiration, Expression

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

  Goodman Ace

  Television, Vaudeville, Done

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• For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.

  Nathan Oliveira

  Beautiful, Oil, Issues

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• Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

  William Bernbach

  Funny Inspirational, Business, Media

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• One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

  Julie Taymor

  Real, Fake, Doe

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Jealousy, Dope

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• Television is such an evolving medium.

  Chris Pratt

  Television, Evolve

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

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• I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

  Brian Eno

  Narrative, Tvs

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• I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

  Joan Collins

  Respect, Actors, Opera

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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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• Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Lying, Past

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

  Sheena Easton

  Hate, Video, Accepted

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• Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Television, Entertainment

  "Anti-TV guerrillas wield their new zapper" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2005.

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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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• 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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