Quotes About Empathy

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

For art to be art it has to cure.

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

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

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

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

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.

People in misery is what most important in art.

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.