Quotes About Communication

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her.

You can pair me up with anybody but that's not a nice thing to do. I should also be comfortable to make male friends.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

We have been the one who all along have been saying that a dialogue must be initiated with Pakistan.

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

I don't want it to be a holiday camp, but it shouldn't be a concentration camp either. It is about getting the balance right with my relationship with them. I will do anything for the players but I'm not their pal as well.

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.