Mediums Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Art, Tape, Manipulation

  Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.405, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.

  Albert A. Michelson

  Velocity, Would Be, Density

  "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.

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• The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

  David Weinberger

  Persistence, Elements, World

  "The Internet is not a medium". Hyperorg.com, March 27, 2004.

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• It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

  John Lennon

  Psychics, Leaving, Littles

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• Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Spiritual, Expression, Doe

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• I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

  Paul Schrader

  Thinking, Directors, Legacy

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• I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Love Is, Land

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• No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

  Tom Shales

  Media, Television, Matter

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• The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

  Lauren Bacall

  Hollywood, Film, Industry

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