Art Of Storytelling Quotes

#1. Romanticism demands mastery of the primary element of fiction: the art of storytelling - which requires three cardinal qualities: ingenuity, imagination, a sense of drama.

Ayn Rand

#2. I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Tinker Hatfield

#3. Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.

Bryan Eisenberg

#4. The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

Karen Traviss

#5. The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Walter Benjamin

#6. Man gave us laws, and God gave us time,
It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

ASAP Rocky

#7. Old wives' tales - that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.

Angela Carter

#8. In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

Walt Disney

#9. Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

Erskine Caldwell

#10. Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.

Rai Aren

#11. The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling,

Cecil B. DeMille

#12. I'm kind of a pop balladeer because I love the art of storytelling. I call myself 'HBO for the ears'; I sing little movies.

Amanda McBroom

#13. You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

Jo Nesbo

#14. I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling.

Michael Eklund

#15. To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.

Chester Elijah Branch

#16. It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

Cheryl Strayed

#17. A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.

A.D. Posey

#18. Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

Lee Gutkind

#19. I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Eduardo Galeano

#20. It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

William Kittredge

#21. No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

Leslie Pietrzyk

#22. Storytelling
that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

Dexter Palmer

#23. When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.

Tim Walker

#24. I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

Jeffrey Brown

#25. Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

Caleb Deschanel

#26. I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#27. If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Ben Wheatley

#28. Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Charles Ray

#29. It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.

Melville Davisson Post

#30. All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

A.D. Posey

#31. I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts' academy in Michigan, who taught me the importance of storytelling, and I really responded to that. It seemed like a long shot, but I always play the long odds.

Benjamin Walker

#32. If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

A.D. Posey

#33. I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

Oprah Winfrey

#34. Every work of art tells a story.

A.D. Posey

#35. Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

A.D. Posey

#36. Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

Philip Gerard

#37. For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Alden Ehrenreich

#38. So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Brian De Palma