Quotes About Communication

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The temple of art is built in words.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.