Mediums Quotes - Page 38

• Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Media, Differences

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• It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in America: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. But I am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

  Harriet Martineau

  School, Circles, America

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.110

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• While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Grace, Agents, Weapons

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 491, 1895.

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• Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

  Aphra Behn

  Time, Ems, Extremes

  Aphra Behn (1871). “The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...”, p.125

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• What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Hangover, Looks

  Berenice Abbott (1944). “A guide to better photography”

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• It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.

  Janet Malcolm

  Taken, Thinking, Views

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes”, p.12, Granta Books

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• Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Art, Emotion, Art Is

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• The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

  Sally Quinn

  Motivation, Ambition, People

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• A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Two, Anxiety, Matter

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.259, Trinity University Press

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• I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Writing, Mind, Wish

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• The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Flower, Expression, Taste

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• To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.

  Susan McClary

  Music, Perception, Body

  Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.164, Routledge

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• Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.

  Maurice Allais

  Reality, Circles, Ignorant

  "L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 506), 1997.

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• Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

  Walt Disney

  Expression, Symphony, Orchestra

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• Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Character, Self, Interesting

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

  Signe Baumane

  Talking, Perfect, Acting

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

  Signe Baumane

  Taken, Believe, Kids

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible. ... I was lucky to be one of the first. I also worked hard, and put in the hours - probably 16 to 17 a day.

  Perez Hilton

  Real, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• There's increasing consciousness that a "command and control" style of management which one associates with a male model isn't necessarily what works anymore, especially with small to medium sized companies. There's increasing evidence that a more flexible management style, where responsibility is distributed up and down the line, is what works best. And that kind of management style is one that will allow individual workers more flexibility - men and women.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Men, Command And Control

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.

  Chris Ware

  Reading, Thinking, Benefits

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• As a filmmaker, I love the medium. I have a great affection for it and I've been lucky enough to do all different kinds of films. The greatest part of the success I've had comes from horror. I love the idea of mixing humor and horror and to me, it's all a giggle.

  George A. Romero

  Ideas, Mixing, Different

  Source: techland.time.com

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• The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Laughing, Challenges, Pages

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

  Dale Spender

  Media, Mind, Patterns

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• just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.

  Judith Crist

  Men, Lasts, Violence

  Judith Crist (1968). “The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde”

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