These medium quotes will inspire you. Medium, being in the middle between an upper and lower amount, size, or degree; average or the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging medium quotes, medium sayings, and medium proverbs.
Best Medium Quotes
- “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.” ~ Martin Scorsese
- “A chair’s function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That’s why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.” ~ Evan Davis
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“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” ~ Plato
- “The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
- “Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” ~ Macklemore
- “Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.” ~ Edward Sapir
- “Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” ~ Ansel Adams
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“I am not a psychic medium. I am a sensitive.” ~ Zak Bagans
- “Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.” ~ Chuck Close
- “Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don’t know.” ~ Fay Godwin
- “Television: A medium. So called because it’s neither rare nor well done.” ~ Ernie Kovacs
- “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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“Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world.” ~ Ilaiyaraaja
- “In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” ~ Josef Albers
- “Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.” ~ David Lynch
- “In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.” ~ Thomas Friedman
- “Word of mouth is the best medium of all.” ~ William Bernbach
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“Trust is the conduit for influence; it’s the medium through which ideas travel.” ` Amy Cuddy
- “Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.” ~ Wim Wenders
- “Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.” ~ Harry von Zell
- “Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.” ~ Ralph Bakshi
- “Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.” ~ Jane Addams
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“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.” ~ Fred Allen
- “Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” ~ Ansel Adams
- “Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining a certain standard that does the trick.” ~ Mani Ratnam
- “Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.” ~ Marcel Duchamp
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“Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.” ~ George Lucas
- “I love listening to the radio because there’s something about that discovery, that platform, still being the main medium. And it is changing with streaming services, but I like to listen to what people are listening to and figure out why is this song so catchy.” ~ Maren Morris
- “My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days – but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce.” ~ Harry Kane
- “Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.” ~ Henry Selick , Medium quotes about life
- “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.” ~ James Gleick
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“I think, in any sort of medium, repetition makes you better at your trade.” ~ Boyd Holbrook
- “At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.” ~ Carlos Slim
- “I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing – to see yourself seeing.” ~ James Turrell
- “I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it’s a back-and-forth process.” ~ Serj Tankian
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“I will continue doing things irrespective of the medium as long as I’m excited about it.” ~ Sushant Singh Rajput
- “Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “I wanted to be a writer as a teen… so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became ‘design brings stories to life.” ~ Yves Behar
- “Aggression is not a breed thing. It’s 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.” ~ Cesar Millan
- “When ‘Jewel’ was screened, old friends from school and university got back in touch. More than one of them told me that their partners hated Merrick so much they could not think of having me in the house. This kind of audience identification does not happen in any other medium.” ~ Tim Pigott-Smith
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“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I’ve always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.” ~ George Lucas
- “The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.” ~ Pauline Kael
- “I’m very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.” ~ Doug Liman
- “The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.” ~ David Icke
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“Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn’t, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.” ~ Beau Willimon
- “I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.” ~ John Lasseter
- “There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.” ~ Dmitri Mendeleev
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“Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.” ~ Vicente Fox
- “You can’t really be passionately moderate. It’s like wearing an ‘Extra Medium’ – it doesn’t exist.” ~ Stephen Colbert
- “My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.” ~ Luke Goss
- “Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, ‘Out you go,’ and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.” ~ David Lindsay-Abaire
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“When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.” ~ Tim Berners-Lee
- “I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.” ~ Lee Strobel
- “Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.” ~ Bill Brandt
- “Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It’s incredibly underused.” ~ Darren Aronofsky
- “Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.” ~ Walter Benjamin
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“Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.” ~ Sergio Aragones
- “A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined ‘medium’ – including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture – for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.” ~ Dick Durbin
- “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.” ~ Ellen Wong
- “I loved comics for a long time, loved the medium, and I love where comics are going. It’s on the forefront of social issues, and there’s no production value limit, so you can create an entire world. As long as you can visualize it, you can make it a reality. Lights Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It’s a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.” ~ Edward Burtynsky
- “Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn’t as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.” ~ Miguel
