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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

Great, Teacher, Mind

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

Small, Return, Greater

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato

Knowledge, Ignorance, Opinion

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Art, Creative, Ideas

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

Story, Bring, Pleasure

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

Time, Same, Joke

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
Bill Gates

Everybody, Move, Quite

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

Art, Yourself, Feelings

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Forget, Evil

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Powerful, Perception, Expression

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
Richard Dawkins

School, Nothing, Career

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Maynard James Keenan

Music, Needs, Force

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

Technology, Personal, Social

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams

Remember, Put, Full

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

May, Through, Meaning

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen

Done, Television, Rare

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Tom Stoppard

Young, Film, Television

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
Neil Armstrong

Thought, Moon, Actually

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick

Power, Hope, Art

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
Doug Larson

Happy, Between, Somewhere

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper

Great, Emotions, Force

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

Experience, Past, Lie

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
Jerry Saltz

Matter, Against, Style

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper

Funny, Business, Help

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini

Between, Artist, Rest

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Peter Singer

Politics, Freedom, Through

The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
Brian Eno

Rather, Picture, Tv

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
Marc Chagall

Work, Moment, Whatever

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