Quotes About Empathy

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

I think everybody should like everybody.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.