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Quotes About Communication

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
~ Unknown
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
~ Leonard Baskin
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.
~ Alex Scally
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
~ Matthew Collings
The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.
~ Harriet B. Braiker
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
~ Jeff Koons
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
~ Ray Conniff
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
~ M.I.A.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
~ John Ruskin
Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.
~ Jack White
Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.
~ Luiz Bolognesi
To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
~ Christoph Martin Wieland
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
~ Chris Ware
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
~ Charles de Lint
Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
~ Constantin Brancusi
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
~ John Drinkwater
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
~ Unknown
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
~ Thomas Carlyle
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
~ Plato
Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.
~ Terence Koh
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.
~ Patrick Califia