Quotes About Communication

Art never lies, I believe.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Promotion and perception are synonymous twins of art marketing.

When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Headline writing is an art form.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.