Medium Quotes

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. (Publilius Syrus)
The medium is the message. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. View quote
Federico Fellini
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. View quote
Walt Disney
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. View quote
George Eliot
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. View quote
Josef Albers
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. View quote
Hans Hofmann
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. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. View quote
Berenice Abbott
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. (John Steinbeck)
I have been no more than a medium, as it were. View quote
Henri Matisse
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. View quote
Edward Sapir
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I found, one day in school, a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babiesthat's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
TV-a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done. View quote
Goodman Ace
Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done. View quote
Ernie Kovacs
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. View quote
Penelope Lively
Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel. (Amy Cuddy)
Television is such an evolving medium. View quote
Chris Pratt
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. View quote
Lawrence Wright
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. View quote
Fay Godwin