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Quotes About Medium

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.
~ Jean Baudrillard
All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
~ Laurence Fishburne
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
~ Alice Walker
Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
~ Clive Owen
Some guys can do digital things where they make some tricks work, but I work on paper and I work with washes. You can't just change things afterwards. You have to get it right on the page.
~ Declan Shalvey
I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.
~ Glenda Bailey
My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.
~ Indraneel Bhattacharya
I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't overintellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.
~ Jakob Dylan
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
~ Jeffrey Deitch
I love listening to the radio because there's something about that discovery, that platform, still being the main medium. And it is changing with streaming services, but I like to listen to what people are listening to and figure out why is this song so catchy.
~ Maren Morris
In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.
~ Jamie Foxx
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.
~ Stephen Marley
Being in front of a live audience is like taking an steroid shot. The applause, the claps in each and every dialogue , people being mesmerized by the performance, and the standing ovation is unparallel. This kind if a feeling you can not get in any other medium!
~ Puneet Issar
Yesterday a women told me that she was a medium but I'm pretty sure that she was an extra large.
~ Unknown
The advantage of a medium of exchange is that it makes trade work. The disadvantage is that it tends to obscure what trade really means.
~ Paul Graham
We must conclude that mankind came to a knowledge of these things through the medium of some primitive revelation.
~ Unknown
I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?
~ Unknown
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
~ Sydney Pollack
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
~ Clement Greenberg
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.
~ Nadia Boulanger
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
~ Mathew Brady