It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.
There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.
Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.
If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.
I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ?
It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.
I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.
We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.
I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense. . . in a way no other medium can.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.
I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.