Quotes About Art

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

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?

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

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

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

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

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

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 me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

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.

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

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