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Above all mediums, through which storytelling is conveyed, none has the potential to draw us in, to hold us spellbound, but the unassuming book.
— Diana Jane Heath
Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
— Nita Engle
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
— Dennis Cooper
The screen is a magic medium ...
— Stanley Kubrick
Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
— Chris Rock
The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.
— Lauren Bacall
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
— Emma Goldman
There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.
— Tom Bissell
Language is the medium of our thoughts.
— Frederick Lenz
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
— Charles James
True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.
— Douglas Haddow
Photography is a generous medium ...
— Lee Friedlander
Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.
— Leopold Stokowski
When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.
— Doug Aitken
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
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
— Edward Blishen
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery.
— Laura Marling
Both mediums, theatre and film, have really interesting sides to it that I really like to explore.
— Tom Wlaschiha
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
— Michael Jackson
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.
— Robert Motherwell
The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.
— Marshall McLuhan
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
— Marshall McLuhan
Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.
— Robert Motherwell
I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.
— Denzel Washington
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you SENSE something, SAY something.
— Stephanie Arnold
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
— Thomas Ruff
How your customers learn about your product is part of your product. The medium is the message.
— Patrick Vlaskovits
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
— Judith Anderson
I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.
— Ian Ziering
Nobody does anything for anybody my friend. We just become mediums to bring each other what destiny has already ordained.
— Amit Pandey
I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.
— Larry David
I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'
— Bruce Joel Rubin
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
— Jeff Koons
The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
— Tamara Tunie
The subject comes first, the medium second.
— Richard Prince
I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.
— Matt Bomer
I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.
— Peter Menzel
I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.
— Jonathan Meades
Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.
— Mark Cuban
Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension ... additive/subtractive.
— Kay WalkingStick
If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.
— Penelope Ann Miller
The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.
— Kurt Schwitters
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
— Edward Hopper
I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.
— Amy Hempel
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
— Duane Michals
When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.
— Chris Rock
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
— Steven Bochco
Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.
— Ian McKellen
I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
— Paul McCartney
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
— Peter Greenaway
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
— Anton Yelchin
Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.
— William Webb
You can paint your soul with any medium.
— Jeet Aulakh
Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.
— Kemp Muhl
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.
— Philip Zimbardo
Our job as creators is to further define any medium.
— Casey Neistat
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ...
— Nancy Mitford
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
— Spike Jonze
I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.
— Adi Shankar
The internet is an amazing medium for languages,
— David Crystal
There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.
— T. Cooper
I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.
— Eric Andre
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
— Henry David Thoreau
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
— Joseph O'Neill
I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
— Jonathan Lethem
It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.
— Francis Bacon
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
— Gerhard Richter
My medium is prose, not the novel.
— David Shields
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
— Camille Pissarro
A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.
— Publilius Syrus
Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn't stand a chance.
— Paul Rudnick
