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The medium is the message.

— Marshall McLuhan

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

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

— Irvine Welsh

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

— Henri Matisse

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.

— Douglas Coupland

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

— Jimmy Smits

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

— Christina Ricci

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

— H. G. Bissinger

✗Opposing Perspectives

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

— Penn Jillette

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

— Doug Aitken

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.

— Rashid Johnson