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Before a painting one must see something other than what one knows already. Associations and significances mingle together beyond the palette. (Valerio Adami)
Talking about Art is like trying to French kiss over the telephone. (Terry Allen)
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. (Maya Angelou)
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. (W. H. Auden)
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. (Jane Austen)
As communicators, artists should not just portray a subject. Their work should be a window to the thoughts and inner workings of their artist lives and minds. (Elizabeth Azzolina)
Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. (Francis Bacon)
If you can talk about it, why paint it? (Francis Bacon)
It's always hopeless to talk about painting – one never does anything but talk around it. (Francis Bacon)
I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence... as a snail leaves its slime. (Francis Bacon)
Painting is a way of communicating vision and experience so that it reaches beyond a single moment in time. What fills our hearts and spills over must be shared. (Stormy Bailey)
The urge to share is not limited to the magnificent, but extends to the otherwise remarkable, even to the horrific. (Stormy Bailey)
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. (Balthus)
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language. (Darby Bannard)
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts. (Georg Baselitz)
All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness. (Jack Beal)
I continuously strive to touch lives. (Michael Bell)
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. (Leonard Bernstein)
Painting is, literally, the primal impulse to mark. It's such a clear way of formulating what's inside one's head; it's the most direct way of communication. (Anna Bialobroda)
conversation, n. A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. (Ambrose Bierce)
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as close together as possible. (George Burns)
You must tell people about nature and respect it so the people who look at your paintings know what to do with it. (George Buytendorp)
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. (Albert Camus)
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. (Thomas Carlyle)
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious – because the obvious is what people need to be told. (Dale Carnegie)
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda... when he had scrawled out a cock, was forced to write underneath it in Gothic letters, 'This is a cock.' (Miguel De Cervantes)
I consider that communication is an essential aspect of art, so it's important to have the right 'vehicle' to say what one wants about a given subject, without having to justify the work with an in-depth, wordy explanation. (Trevor Chamberlain)
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers – or both. (Elizabeth Charles)
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. (Jean Cocteau)
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. (Frank Moore Colby)
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Debate is the death of conversation. (Kitty O'Neill Collins)
Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity. (John Constable)
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. (Stephen R. Covey)
Keep communications simple and direct; everyone will appreciate this. (Jeff Davidson)
Art is the only true language that, for those who appreciate it, may do so on their own terms, with their own personal spin and without the need for an interpreter. (Dwayne Davis)
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. (Miles Davis)
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? (Edgar Degas)
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. (Edgar Degas)
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. (Eugene Delacroix)
Children become what they are told they are. (Dorothy DeLay)
Self talk is destructive to art. In the making of art we are channeling energy from a source to a visual. Talking, even to self, redirects the energy channel to a less pure interpretation. (Laurie DeMatteo)
Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything. (Denis Donoghue)
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. (Jean Dubuffet)
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. (Raoul Dufy)
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. (Eight-year-old)
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings. (Milton Erikson)
Tell stories to the world. (Tomm Fennell)
If others can connect with my vision, then my art has succeeded. (Richard Fidler)
Only connect! (E. M. Forster)
I attempt to communicate through the medium of print a lively interpretation of my subject, endeavoring to capture its spirit. (Tom Francesconi)
When something needs to be painted, it lets me know. (Luis Frangella)
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. (Edwin H. Friedman)
Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce. (Naum Gabo)
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It is not the language of painters, but the language of nature which one should listen to... (Vincent van Gogh)
Spoken out loud or in whispers, one way or another, our personal history becomes an intrinsic part of the broader history of our species, a thread in the complex interweaving. (Martine Gourbault)
Let your picture welcome the viewer. (Irwin Greenberg)
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. (Robert Greenleaf)
The meaning of any communication is the effect it has. (John Bandler and Richard Grinder)
Art has always been like a crazy bus for me going everywhere meeting people... a vehicle to build a base in which to connect with people. (Bart Habermiller)
The heart is the shortest distance between two people. (Andrew Hamilton)
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. (Lionel Hampton)
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers – only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. (Grace Hartigan)
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. (George Herbert)
We think up clever repartee / Right after we're a departee. (Jack Herbert)
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy. (Selima Hill)
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. (Howard Hodgkin)
A drawing or painting can appeal across the barriers of time and space with a language of its own – direct, immediate and alive. (Janet Allen and John Holden)
Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it. (Gary Holland)
Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Art is a means of communication by which mind reaches out to mind across great gaps of space and time, as well as across death. (Francis Hoyland)
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise – that which is common to you, me and everybody. (Thomas Ernest Hulme)
How many languages do we really speak? (Alfredo Jaar)
Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. (Alfred Jarry)
We want to be sure that it has that drama to it, that vividness to it, that focus, that cleanliness to it that is going to say something to you. (Thomas Keller)
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. (Yves Klein)
Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured. (John P. Kotter)
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. (Diana Krall)
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. (Hilton Kramer)
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do - you know, instead of pulling out a gun. (Barbara Kruger)
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. (Tom Lehrer)
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available. (C. S. Lewis)
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. (Bella Lewitzky)
Though old the thought and oft expressed, / 'Tis his at last who says it best. (James Russell Lowell)
-on Tom Thomson...
Thomson painted not merely to paint, but because his nature compelled him to paint - because he had a message. (J. M. MacCallum)
It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another. (Alison Mackie)
Many a man's tongue broke his nose. (Seumas MacManus)
In order for the human community to benefit from the contributions of the artist, it must first learn the language that he uses in his work. In order to understand what is said in a language, you first have to learn the language. (Alberto Magnelli)
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. (Andre Malraux)
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this. (Mary Martin)
Talk about it. Don't try to imitate it. Tell it, don't show it. (Doris McCarthy)
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. (Donella Meadows)
Like a foreign language, I use painting to translate ideas, feelings, and moods related to my subjects... not literal translations, but statements of my emotions. (Joseph Mendez)
In the end my art is a dialogue between two souls... yours and mine. (Allison Merriweather)
Example moves the world more than doctrine. (Henry Miller)
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first. (Henry Moore)
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. (Henry Moore)
I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years. (Norval Morrisseau)
What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between. (Robert Motherwell)
When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets. (Bruno Munari)
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it – I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. (Joyce Carol Oates)
Artwork must bear elements of beauty and emotions; it must appeal to human feelings because art is an international language connecting people. (Valentin Okorokov)
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. (Claes Oldenburg)
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much. (Norman Vincent Peale)
When someone likes your work there's a reason, you're obviously communicating. (Ross Penhall)
Most artwork comes out of someplace you can just tap into, and make that so obvious. And then other people can look at it and say, "I know that place too, that craving." (Judy Pfaff)
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken. (Pablo Picasso)
For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography. (Pablo Picasso)
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. (Camille Pissarro)
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said. (Jackson Pollock)
The artist is the antenna of the race. (Ezra Pound)
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. (Joseph Priestley)
The tongue can paint what the eye can't see. (Chinese proverb)
Talk about life – but in your own way. (Howard Pyle)
I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive. (Larry Rivers)
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. (Anthony Robbins)
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. (Anthony Robbins)
We create because we want to communicate something, because we want someone to hear what we've said and think "yes!" (Fiona Robyn)
The goal of effective communication should be for the listener to say, "Me, too!" versus "So what?" (Jim Rohn)
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. (Jim Rohn)
Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. (Leo Rosten)
Music, imaginative arts are all-mankind languages... The role of art and artist is to create, keep, defend and develop these all-mankind languages – each drop of created art saves the World! (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak)
Promote yourself but do not demote another. (Israel Salanter)
I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. (Allen Sapp)
The main thing is to know something and to say it. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. (Seneca)
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. (Ben Shahn)
If an attunement or sensory response can be evoked from the viewer, a most exquisite form of communication has been established, and the artist's role has been truly fulfilled. (Irving Shapiro)
The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished. (George Bernard Shaw)
Art is a means of communicating thoughts and experiences in a mostly personal way. It's a process of communication that partially conceals its process of communicating. (Todd Siler)
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. (Alfred Sisley)
I try to say something through those images, my 'war work,' though I don't know what it is. It's hard to describe. My head is full of that stuff. It comes pouring out. (Ben Steele)
A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say. (Isaac Stern)
We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives. (Lewis Thomas)
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. (Lewis Thomas)
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and the best feelings to which men have risen. (Leo Tolstoy)
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy)
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. (Mark Twain)
For me, successful communication is comprehensible communication. Consequently, I have issues with "artspeak". (Chris Tyrell)
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. (unknown)
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. (John Updike)
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. (Voltaire)
I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art. (David Walker)
Tell the viewer something that they need to know. (Kay WalkingStick)
The visual language of metaphors is one we all speak, consciously or not. We all dream in that language. (Coulter Watt)
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. (Rebecca West)
Art has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind. (Rebecca West)
You have to find your own way to reconnect. Making art takes a connection. (Elizabeth Winter-Noyes)
What can be shown, cannot be said. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
A painting is a powerful vehicle of communication. Pictures can tell a story, convey a mood, or be a visual autobiography of the artist. (Rachel Rubin Wolf)
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died. (Andrew Wyeth)
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