Quotes About Empathy

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The power of art can open our minds.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

Art is as useful as bread.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.