Top 245 Mediums Quotes & Sayings

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience.

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

I have and will continue to vigorously pursue opportunities in all mediums.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

Western influences have turned the world into a small global village, particularly through television and other mediums.

It's great to do theater and have the live response and know what that can bring to a performance. I like to juggle as many mediums as I can.

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

I like working in all different mediums so I'm truly lucky to be able to flip back and forth.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

I think there are so many misconceptions about mediums.

There aren't a lot of entertainment-based mediums, the visual or recorded mediums, that empower the audience to go off the next day and create it themselves. You can't watch a movie or a show and the next day say, 'I want to make that.' You have to go to school.

I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid. I think you see that nowadays, in this postmodern context, there's much more use of different mediums in contemporary art. For me, if you're a creative person, you can choose to make a painting, you can choose to make a film.

Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

In 'Dancing Drums' I interweave all my mediums into what I like to call, simply as 'trance.'

I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

It has always been my belief that creation, the making of 'art' in any medium or combination of mediums, is a holy act.

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

The filmmakers that I studied and appreciated growing up are the ones that are able to dictate their vision clearly to each department, and they know the language of how to communicate with each department well enough, so that their vision is clearly transferred to the screen. So I like to spend time on sets learning from all of the departments and seeing how they approach their jobs. It's not just filmmakers, you know? There's so many mediums involved. I love learning about all of the mediums.

I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.

I am not a soap star. I want to create a niche for myself through other mediums.

I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

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

It was in college that I learned the basics of theater, the entertainment industry, and various mediums.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.