Quotes About Communication

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

To me one of the amazing technologies of writing is the way it can listen in on thoughts. I don't feel that that's natural to other art forms in the same way.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Art does not explain.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.