Quotes About Meaning

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.