“The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.” DoeLyingEasyDifficultPaintingElementsAttractionMediumsContradictionFragileInkIndecisionCeramicsDifficult And Easy Author:Isamu Noguchi
“Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.” DifficultPleasurePracticeMysteryMediumsSatisfyingDedicatedProviding Author:Robert A. Lovett
“I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.” WellsDoneBigsDifficultSeaLoversCookingFishesMediumsMeatTemperatureBassProteinWell DoneStunningScallops Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use.” WorldGivingFirstsUseCertainDifficultHonestPaperFairsPressesMediumsAdvertisingPapersAdvertisers Book:If You Ask Me Source: If You Ask Me
“I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.” PeopleMenDifficultChallengesHe ManPhotographyEmptyNotesPhotographerDelightMediumsWorthlessDespisedPhony Author:Walker Evans
“College radio is a very important medium that needs to survive in difficult economic times when some stations are being sold off and shut down. College radio is the future for broadcasting stars and pioneers of tomorrow, and we as a band, Coldplay, support the vital mission of college radio and we also support College Radio Day, the day when college radio comes together.” NeedsImportantTogetherStarsDifficultSupportEconomicCollegeTomorrowBandRadioMissionsMediumsStationsPioneersBroadcasting Author:Chris Martin