Quotes About Connection

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

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.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

There is no gap between art and politics.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

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 making art, you are not separate from your brand.

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

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

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.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

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