Quotes About Communication

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

All great art is a form of complaint

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Art destroys silence.