Quotes About Mediums

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

But time lessens all extremes, & reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

In his 1964 book, Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan famously said that "the medium is the message.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

Art is the expression of human emotions through various mediums. Sports can be considered as nothing less than an art form because it makes the spirit soar.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

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

It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.

But it was in the art of the cartoon film, with its limitless possibilities, that New Athens had made its most successful experiments. The hundred years since the time of Disney had still left much undone in this most flexible of all mediums. On the purely realistic side, results could be produced indistinguishable from actual photography—much to the contempt of those who were developing the cartoon along abstract lines.

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

Home's book, Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism, a work that castigated a number of mediums for faking manifestations and duping clients out of their fortunes, said not a word that was disparaging of Kate or Maggie Fox.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

But time lessens all extremes and reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next.