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Quotes About Television

Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.
~ Unknown
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
~ Leslie Moonves
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
~ Fred Allen
I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.
~ David Bowie
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
~ Will Self
A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.
~ Aden Young
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. "M.A.S.H." comes to mind. So does The Iliad.
~ Kevin Bleyer
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.
~ Michael Haneke
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.
~ Paul Virilio
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.
~ Reese Witherspoon
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
~ Al Yankovic
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
~ Al Yankovic
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.
~ Chris Burke
Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.
~ Edwin Diamond
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
~ Jane Seymour
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
~ Unknown
I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
~ Kelly McGillis
Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
~ Mojo Nixon
I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
~ Nelly
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.
~ Pauline Kael
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
~ Pauline Kael
Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.
~ Ricky Gervais
I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.
~ Robert Altman