Quotes About Communication

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Art is basically entertainment.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.