Quotes About Interpretation

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

The meaning of a communication is the result you get.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them 'common' to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means 'common.')

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

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

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

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.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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

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

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.