Quotes About Expression

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

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.

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

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

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 much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

Words are the voice of the heart.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

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

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Don't do anything that isn't play

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