Medium Quotes - page 3

The body is our general medium for having a world. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive. View quote
Hans Hofmann
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now. View quote
Berenice Abbott
There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly. View quote
Dinah Craik
The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted. View quote
Jerry Goldsmith
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions. View quote
Lee Krasner
There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form. View quote
Will Self
The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale. (Manuel Castells)
If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God. View quote
Meher Baba
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
Word of mouth is the best medium of all. View quote
William Bernbach
I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality. View quote
John Buchan
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed. View quote
Jules Verne
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. View quote
Thomas Mann
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. View quote
Martin Scorsese
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. (Clement Greenberg)
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable. View quote
Neil Postman
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people. View quote
Irving Thalberg
If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen. View quote
Charles Fort
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator. View quote
Roman Vishniac