Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penn Jillette

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Casey Neistat

Our job as creators is to further define any medium.

Bernard Cornwell

Television is a young person's medium.

Ben Shahn

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Brian Baumgartner

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

Berenice Abbott

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Charlton Heston

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

Dmitri Mendeleev

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Crystal

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

David Ricardo

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

David Hockney

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

Denzel Washington

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Doug Aitken

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

Andrew Zuckerman

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Bobby Seale

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

Bob Edwards

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Doug Aitken

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

Doug Aitken

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.

Bill Brandt

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

Anton Yelchin

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

Aphra Behn

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

The process for writing for the two mediums is like apples and oranges. Both games and movies strive to tell a narrative story and both mediums are slaves to technology, time and budget; but after that, things are completely different.

C. S. Lewis

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.

Douglas Coupland

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.