Quotes About Expression

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.