A Quote by Richard Prince

The subject comes first, the medium second.

Richard Prince

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First Medium Second Subject

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Richard Prince
American - Artist
Born: 1949

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

Susan Sontag

But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.

Eliot Porter

Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

Unknown

Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.

David L. Wolper

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.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

Thomas de Quincey

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

William Feather

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Victor Hugo

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

Thomas A. Edison

Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

Douglas Adams

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Robert Motherwell

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

Chet Faker

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

Thomas Ruff

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.