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Quotes About Medium

Not only a great game, 'Uncharted 2' raised the bar for storytelling for the medium. The game treated action as a part of the overall story rather than a way to move from plot point to plot point.
~ Rob Manuel
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
~ Edward Steichen
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
~ Hans Hofmann
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
~ Robert Fitzgerald
The public should have access to unfettered communication and commerce, and the Internet is increasingly the medium where that takes place.
~ Zephyr Teachout
TV is a medium that can be used to spread a positive message but people are spreading bogus ideas in people's minds.
~ Supriya Pathak
Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.
~ Kevin Rollins
Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.
~ David S. Goyer
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.
~ John Lanchester
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
~ Doug Ose
1. Passion; 2. An eye of discernment; 3. An empty vessel; 4. An ability to be uncertain; 5. Belief in the necessity of art and artists; 6. A medium—bringing a passionate and informed understanding of works of art to an audience in ways that will stimulate, inspire, question; 7. Making possible the altering of perception.6
~ Terry Smith
There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.
~ Kevin Spacey
We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and tho seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links
~ Nikola Tesla
Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A theory. A marketing campaign. A political strategy. A religious doctrine.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Take full advantage of the complete freedom books provide. To not take advantage of that freedom is to waste the one chief strength of the medium.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The novel is the medium which makes it possible for people of ordinary intelligence to communicate their ideas to the world.
~ Virginia Woolf
For Mia, Moody learned, did not consider herself a photographer. Photography, at its heart, was about documentation, and he soon understood that for Mia photography was simply a tool, which she used as a painter might use a brush or a knife.
~ Celeste Ng
Radio is truly the most intimate medium of all. For a listener, it can be a cross between access to a party-line and an interior monologue.
~ Canadian Theatre Review, 1982
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
~ Guillermo del Toro
My style can't be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need to have all their senses ready to take on my comedy, and unfortunately, TV alienates at least their sense of touch, taste, smell.
~ Kristen Schaal
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
~ David Lynch
Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.
~ Stephen Marley
When 'Jewel' was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith