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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Has Beens Interest Challenges My Own Break Conditions Media Painting Size Scales Mediums

Author:Lee Krasner

“No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.”

Way Matter Media Television Tvs Internet Findings Mediums Programming Savants Numbered Days

Author:Tom Shales

“I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.”

Believe Book Character I Believe Media Crosses I Believe In Mediums Adapting

Author:Bing Gordon

“Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.”

Art Stills Artist Grows Differences Media Mass Traditional Mediums Exception Allowing Decay Mass Media

Author:Pauline Kael

“Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.”

Mind Written Media Patterns Mediums Print Mind Set

Author:Dale Spender

“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.”

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Author:Christoph Waltz

“On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks. And I've left these stories, these little tales that have been imprinted on the media, which will or will not be of interest to people in the future. I've done the best I can.”

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Author:George Lucas

“Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.”

Magic Mystery Media Mediums Destroyed Digital Digital Media

Author:John Dyer

“Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.”

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Author:Alan Kay

“Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.”

Stories Young Certain Media Particular Findings Lows Mediums Brows

Author:Corey Stoll

“The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.”

Different Interest Media Possibility Photography Mediums Masterpiece

Author:Chuck Close

“Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.”

Two Seems Past Media Particular Painting Photography Performances Leaving Decades Boundaries Mediums Sculpture Over The Past

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.”

People Thinking Want Feels Book Novel Media Television Originals Hungry Mediums Comic Originality Lacking Comic Book Want Something Graphic Remakes Graphic Novels

Author:Miles Millar