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Quotes About Communication

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
~ Cass McCombs
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
~ Clive James
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.
~ Dana Gioia
Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.
~ Domenico Gnoli
Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.
~ Eric Drooker
the one universal form of art is music.
~ Faith Baldwin
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
~ Glen Duncan
The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
~ Grace Slick
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
~ Irving Stone
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.
~ Jarvis Cocker
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
~ Jasper Johns
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.
~ Joey Comeau
Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.
~ John Maeda
Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.
~ John Maeda
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Teaching is performance art.
~ Kate Clinton
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
~ Ken Danby
Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
~ Lance Reddick
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.
~ Leslie Bradshaw
All art is about appealing to emotion.
~ Michael Moore
We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
~ Nikki Giovanni