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“The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.”

Character Helping Hands Would Be Truth Doubt Objects Shapes Illusion Proof Mediums Colour No Doubt Reflecting Trifling Fluctuation

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.”

Language Greater Magic Transformation Method Mediums Phenomenon Ritual Symbolic Parcel

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.”

People Trying Art Important Young Teach Creative Expression Drama Photography Tools Mediums Empowering Programmes Creative Expression

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.”

Knows Humans Doe Earth Form Spirit Culture Tree Figures Divine Flower Bears Sacred Fruit Mediums Symbols Agents Cosmos Transformed Prophecy Dwelling Metamorphosis Dwelling Place

Author:Christopher McDowell

“Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.”

“Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.”

Song Speech Ordinary Sacred Silly Mediums

Author:Oliver Herford

“As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.”

Thinking Bigs Language Mediums Linguists Ada

Author:Larry Wall

“And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.”

Needs Term Mediums Defined

Author:Duane Michals

“The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.”

Turns Depth Radio Mediums Inherent Echoes Chamber Horns Antiques Subliminal Resonating

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.”

Mind Body Birth Victim Property Mediums Merit Faculty Unfortunate Hereditary Locomotives

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it were equally a necessity of things that the reasonings connected with operations should hold the same just place as a clear and well-defined branch of the subject of analysis, a fundamental but yet independent ingredient in the science, which they must do in studying the engine.”

“Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.”

Men Known Growing Fellows Active Mediums Obscure Fellow Man Posterity Intercourse

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.”

Use Form Order Three Causes Interest Rights Land Importance Property Profit Credit Mediums Artificial Monopoly Anarchist Standpoint Private Property Patents Copyright Hindrance Tariffs Usury

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source: Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr

“Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.”

People Ifs Enough Film Vision Smart Drawing Mediums

Author:Lawrence Bender

“Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come to feel that more and more. The more movies I've done and the older I've - the more experience I have, I always knew it was a director's medium, and I always said that.”

Feels Looks Said Done Directors Mediums

Author:Matt Damon

“I played a medium on Ghost Whisperer for six years, and the mediums never complained at the fact that I had cleavage while I was crossing people over into the light. In fact, they were super-excited that a hot person was out there representing the medium.”

People Years Persons Facts Light Six Hot Excited Ghost Mediums Crossings Representing Cleavage Ghost Whisperer

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.”

Long Book Different Would Be One Thing Fans Long Time Screens Mediums Translate Reverse Long Time Ago

Author:Andrew Stanton

“[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.”

Way Want Feels Mean Use Light Wonderful Magic Influence Materials Drink Perception Skins Mediums Vitamins Elixir Vitamin D

Author:James Turrell

“TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.”

Littles Different Stories Bits Tvs Little Bit Mediums Narrative Resolution Short Story Constraints Cinematic

Author:Tucker Max

“In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.”

Facts Rings Mediums Truthfulness Lyric Poetry

Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.”

“Pick something you are interested in, and keep applying a business model that includes Internet Marketing to make it global, get thousands of leads and clients for free and make more sales. Remember you are building a business, as people make the internet appear to be push-button money, when in fact it is a medium to market your message!”

People Facts Remember Building Internet Messages Models Picks Marketing Mediums Clients Buttons Remember You Remembers You Business Models Internet Marketing Building A Business

Author:Tracy Repchuk

“To me, art and music inform each other continually, and when I was making more music there was an overall aesthetic that was shared by both mediums. Now I always listen to music when I work, so when I am working a lot, that is when I start searching out new music and finding new things to get excited about.”

Art Findings Excited Mediums Aesthetic New Things Listening To Music New Music Art And Music Working A Lot

Author:Neil Farber

“What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.”

Writing Language Forget Communication Reader Strive Mediums Clarity Prose Transparent

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an understanding of filmmaking, a new understanding where I believe it's a director's medium. That means working with people that I believe in.”

People Want Believe Mean I Believe Understanding Directors I Believe In Mediums Filmmaking Just Believe

Author:James Franco

“Movies are now more often watched on the small screen anyway. But at least for me, what got lost in that is the difference in the medium.”

Lost Differences Screens Mediums

Author:Greta Gerwig

“For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.”

Ifs Writing Matter Character Film Subjects Tvs Great Things Mediums Extensions Subject Matter Going For It

Author:Adam Croasdell

“I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.”

People Made Wanted Effort Directors Conscious Mediums

Author:Josh Duhamel

“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.”

Should Kind Ends Games Justice Audience Stage Media Musician Theater Mediums Soccer Hockey Opera Pits Theatrical Hybrid Either Or Playing Soccer

Author:Christoph Waltz

“I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.”

Years Stills Particular Draws Mediums Orientation

Author:Jack Kirby

“Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.”

Men Mind May Mean Long Age Law Known Cases Air Bird Letters Difficulty Aids Mediums Aviation Artificial Principal Predictions Speculation Obliged Laws Of Nature Balloons Buoyancy

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.”

World Inspirational Dream Motivational Film Lost Dark Mediums Fantastic Filmmaker Another World

Author:David Lynch

“I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.”

“What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.”

Facts Home Wanted Spirit Hell Goes On Research Mediums Intimacy Interviews Bonding Plugs Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Marc Maron

“The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that.”

Listening Sitting Mediums Listeners Podcasting

Author:Marc Maron

“It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.”

Enjoy Acting Response Pursue Mediums Good Times

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.”

People Thinking Film Actors Opinion Stage Contrary Mediums Conventional Bothered Conventional Wisdom

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes. It's also a fantastic medium to hear the ideas and opinions of people I might not otherwise get to meet.”

People World Way Ideas Might Care Causes Opinion Mediums Hopefully Fantastic I Care

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.”

Thinking Feels Mean I Can Two Film Hours Painting Theater Mediums Artistic Our Time Disbelief

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I would definitely not rule out doing television in the future because I think it's a great medium for telling stories. And it can also be practically very nice for a family man to have 9 months out of the year where you're in the city, where you're close to your home.”

Thinking Men Years Stories Home Cities Nice Television Months Mediums Very Nice Telling Stories Family Man

Author:Chris Pratt

“I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real love for it, and to really, when I say take it seriously, quote 'seriously', I mean not patronize it. It's a big mistake to patronize it and think it's a third rate medium, because it's not, it's a great art form.”

Thinking Mean Art Real Bigs Form Mistake Thirds Cameras Rate Mediums Real Love Great Art Big Mistake

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.”

Children Moral Objects Development Morality Intellectual Mediums Handicrafts Moral Development Basic Education

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.”

Needs Self Truth Influence Highest Rose Communicate Mediums Fragrance Intervention

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.”

Thinking Way Want Persons Facts Stories Found Masters Mediums Excitement Visuals

Author:George Lucas

“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.”

People Littles Has Beens I Can Done Stories Moving Left Sides Interest Media Tales Mediums Cinema Digital Chemicals Landmarks

Author:George Lucas

“Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.”

Trying Persons Said Wanted Balance Patient Mediums Productive Grandmother My Grandmother Be Patient Impatient

Author:Farrah Gray

“My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.”

Facts Audience Television Mediums Limitation Dissatisfaction

Author:Charlton Heston

“Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.”

Thinking Used Approach Rap Mediums Rapper

Author:Hoodie Allen

“One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.”

Made Black White Interesting Century Painting Late Photograph Mediums Painter Copies Black And White Interesting Things 19th Century

Author:Robert Longo

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