Quotes About Communication

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Only art means anything.