Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium. Walt Alston
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. Tucker Max
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
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. Daniel Clowes
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.Neil Armstrong
None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning. Peter Ackroyd
Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. Bret Easton Ellis
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.orson welles