Quotes About Connection

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Art and politics have many things in common.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.