Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Interpretation
Photography helps people understand each other better.
Edward Steichen suggests that photography serves as a powerful medium for communication and connection among individuals. Through images, photography captures human experiences, emotions, and stories, thus fostering understanding and empathy in a way that words alone often cannot.
In practice
During a presentation on the impact of art, one might use this quote to illustrate how visual media fosters communication.
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... _x000D_ The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if they don't like what I've written, then it's about me.
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.
Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
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