Quotes About Empathy

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.