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“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”

Used Artist Quality Pieces Alive Mystery Produce Poet Paint Mediums Pot Unsaid

Book:The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

Source: The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu

“I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock'n'roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.”

People Thinking Country Three Sky Rocks Movement Television Findings Mediums Britain Coming Out Rock N Roll Platforms Phenomenal Funny People

Author:Brendan Coyle

“A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.”

People Film Tvs Silent Storytelling Mediums Features Short Films Cargo

Author:Ellen Wong

“There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.”

Certain Limits All Things Mediums

Author:Horace

“People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.”

People Enough Film Stars Tvs Scales Mediums Behave Awe Film Stars

Author:Tom Hollander

“In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.”

Way Want Ideas Feelings Able Certain My Own Behinds Directors Hollywood Cameras Structure Mediums

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.”

Trying Artist Challenges Quality Roles Focus Involved Findings Productions Mediums Get Involved Intriguing Format

Author:Brian J. White

“What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.”

Wells Long Matter Character Written Materials Mediums Graduates Well Written

Author:Alicia Silverstone

“I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.”

Wells Horrible Mediums Positive Experiences Really Positive Horrible Experience

Author:Jimmi Simpson

“I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium weve got right now.”

People Kind Hate Actors Attitude Television Right Now Exciting I Hate Mediums Contempt Unbelievable

Author:Michael Moriarty

“Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that.”

Different Stories Film Imagination Interesting Growing Up Growing Television Dad My Dad Mediums Enjoyed Ran My Imagination

Author:Shiloh Fernandez

“I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.”

World Artist Opinion Pops Mediums Canvas Public Opinion Pop Art

Author:Kanye West

“Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration.”

Wells Looks Important Book Inspiration Culture Games Television Source Series Pops Video Storytelling Mediums Pop Culture Source Of Inspiration

Author:Sam Lake

“Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.”

Mean Might Remember Wealth Information Materials Incredibles Available Mediums Illegal Librarian

Author:Judith Krug

“Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the people must increasingly participate; they can't participate unless they understand; and the theater is one of the great mediums of understanding.”

People Should Country Order Understanding Democracy Theater Mediums Our Country Luxury

Author:Hallie Flanagan

“Television is such a mediocre medium.”

Television Mediums Mediocre

Author:Elizabeth Montgomery

“Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.”

Knows Should Moments Character Quality Practice Awareness Importance Response Photographer Obvious Mediums Dedication Intuitive

Author:Ansel Adams

“Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?”

World Real Wonder Gone Information Insane Mediums Dope

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.”

Ifs Doe Light Language Pure Originals Shining Mediums Obscure Translations Transparent

Author:Walter Benjamin

“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.”

Needs Important Together Stars Difficult Support Economic College Tomorrow Band Radio Missions Mediums Stations Pioneers Broadcasting

Author:Chris Martin

“In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.”

Jesus Christ Cases Messages Jesus Christ Distance Separation Mediums

Book:The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media

Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media

“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”

People Thinking Two Sex Quality Class Subjects Regard Feminist Mediums Feminine Divides Masculine

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.”

I Can Political Intention Meaningful Mediums Shock

Author:Richard Billingham

“My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.”

Wells Film Responsibility Share New York Students Photography Committed Video Mediums Enthusiasm Exploration Academy Joining Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Ralph Gibson

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

Happens Hate Things Happen Mediums Crap Idealistic Make Things Happen

Author:Bobby Seale

“Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.”

Internet Video Mediums Testing Revenue

Author:Mark Cuban

“There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.”

Kind Decision Fine Directors Mediums Producers Say Anything Unwritten Unwritten Rules

Author:Robert Carlyle

“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.”

Way States Whole Stories Levels United United States Television Mediums Genre New Things New Ways Wire Telling Stories Hbo

Author:William Gibson

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

Creative Privilege Mediums Expensive

Author:Denzel Washington

“I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.”

Matter Moments Mediums That Moment Whatever Works

Author:Joshua Radin

“I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.”

Writing Dancing Mediums Performing Visuals Composing Writing Music

Author:Michael Jackson

“I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.”

Thinking Way Play Film Written Tvs Radio Mediums Prose Favourite Listeners Immediacy Radio Plays

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.”

Ifs Want Should Kind Television Yeah Mediums Performers Jerk

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.”

Made Information Mediums Meat

Author:Terence McKenna

“Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.”

Firsts Two Community Policy Materials Activity Standards Determination Contemporary Factors Mediums Organs Offensive Hinges Fcc

Author:Doug Ose

“The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.”

Important Matter No Matter What Important Things Mediums Good Work

Author:Roy Scheider

“A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.”

Way Feels Audience Television Pride Negative Mediums Connotation

Author:Grace Helbig

“Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.”

Mind Humans Ideas States Energy Levels Four Dog Lows Mediums State Of Mind Aggression

Author:Cesar Millan

“I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.”

Motivational Wanted School Felt Class Study College Fit Mediums Principal Admission Hindi Classes In School

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.”

Thinking Flow Metaphor Mediums Time Passes Time Goes By

Book:Time Travel: A History

Source: Time Travel: A History

“In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.”

Writing Character Stories Action Term Differences Mediums Animation Good Story

Author:Michael Arndt

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

Form Novel Ultimate Mediums

Author:Chad Harbach

“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.”

Looks Kind Littles Light Bits Water Produce Strange Little Bit Models Glasses Complicated Invention Mediums

Author:Peter Higgs

“Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.”

Needs Desire Communicate Mediums Subconscious Cerebral Sentient Beings

Author:Nellie McKay

“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.”

World Mean Film Quality Honor Findings Mediums Filmmaker Peter Elsewhere Perfectionist Etcetera

Author:Stan Brakhage

“The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.”

Thinking Used Culture Teach Knowing Computer Program Mediums Presentation Great Power Simulation Powerpoint

Author:Sherry Turkle

“If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.”

Ifs Situation Honest Taught Messages Smart Oneself Wit Lovely Mediums Sane Taught Us Amalgamation Stay Happy

Author:Philip Gambone

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