Top 70 Mediums Quotes

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I’m not really looking to see if it’s for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it’s how I get a lot of thinking done.

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

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

I’m drawn to people rather than mediums – directors, writers, actors.

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

I think that TV and film are very important mediums to show what people of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations can do, and I think that, as women, we are still in the process of proving what we can do, what we can accomplish, and who we are.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn’t do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn’t do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

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

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don’t have to fake it.

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

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

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I’m sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one – music, fashion, and art. I’m hitting it from all angles.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

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

When we started Angels & Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn’t go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it’s always been that way.

I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

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

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don’t get it. I don’t get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I’m doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn’t think you ever had.

I think if you’ve got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.

I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I’m not alone. I think that’s the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself – some sort of context of other women making things.

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

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.

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

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

I’m not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.

I’m a big fan of ‘Akira,’ and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn’t be able to in other mediums.

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

I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums – like analogue tape – that evoke multiple eras of recorded music at the same time.

Mucinex were like, ‘Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you’re sick right now’. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it’s all content.

And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

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

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.

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

I will not restrict myself. I want to do films and TV: both mediums are amazing to reach to the audience and express your art form, and if both are available, then why not exploit them?

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.

I’ve been on stage and been an actor for many years and used different mediums.

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

I think, television and comics, what’s appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

I like interaction. I like engagement. My favorite part of Twitter is really the mentions and interacting with people. It’s rarely just the broadcasting of my opinions. I have plenty of other mediums to do that.

There’s something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I’ve had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.

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

I’m interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don’t believe in anything. I’d seen mediums and readers.

Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don’t think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see – but the catchphrases.

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don’t understand. It’s cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don’t.

My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even ‘The Road’ was a real learning curve for me with digital effects.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there’s not much opportunity in terms of employment there.