Mediums Quotes - Page 5

• 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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  Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

  Martin Scorsese

  Needs, Cinema, World

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Sep 15, 2013

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• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Ignorance

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• The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

  Penn Jillette

  Messages

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

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• The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Magic, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Growing Up, Walks

  Nancy Tousley, Berenice Abbott, Glenbow Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (1982). “The Berenice Abbott portfolios”, Glenbow

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• Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Dare, Stills

  "Do writers' photographs show a side of their character not revealed in their books?" by William Dalrymple, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2016.

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• Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Practice, Mystery, Pleasure

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• I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

  Nelson Shanks

  Real, Color, Years

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• I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

  Doug Dawson

  Gold, Texture, Way

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• I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

  Harold Town

  Believe, Likes, Paint

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• Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.

  Cy Twombly

  Hands, Oil, Use

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

  Nita Engle

  Art, Moving, Paper

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• Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

  Jay Moore

  Beautiful, Way, Tone

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• A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

  Ian Fleming

  Dry, Vodka, Martini

  Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

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• Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

  John French Sloan

  Quality, Sensitive, Paint

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• It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Feelings, Being Me

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Lying, Difficult And Easy, Ink

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• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Quilts, Color, Issues

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• You can paint your soul with any medium.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Soul, Paint, Your Soul

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• I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

  John Berger

  White, Drawing, Use

  "The Intimate Idealogue". Interview with Robert Enright, bordercrossingsmag.com. April 1995.

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• Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

  John Marin

  Beautiful, Giving, Sound

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Done, Appeals

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• Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Giving, Dimensions, Additives

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