Quotes About Communication

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

Comedy is a noble art.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.