The Art Of Communication Quotes

#1. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

#2. There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

Max De Pree

#3. The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

George Lois

#4. Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

Rick Pitino

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

Gordon Brown

#6. We'll vote," Maia said. "And I promise not to vote for a chick flick. They're crap anyway. It's always about two idiots who apparently don't understand the art of communication.

Samantha Young

#7. Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

T.D. Jakes

#8. Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Kenneth Lonergan

#9. [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

Walker Percy

#10. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#11. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

#12. Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Guy De Maupassant

#13. 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

#14. The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts of another.

Tedd Tripp

#15. Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

Ben Hunt

#16. This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Robert Delaunay

#17. 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

#18. A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't like, and I always felt frustrated because I felt like I was a communication artist or a media artist. The best advertising is one of the art forms of our culture.

Lee Clow

#20. I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.

Barry Ptolemy

#21. Art is aesthetic communication of the soul - in fact, it's the best of that communication - and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature.

Anthony Marais

#22. The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

Walter Darby Bannard

#23. Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Rockwell Kent

#24. I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

Ethan Hawke

#25. Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

Ordway Tead

#26. Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

Tim LaHaye

#27. Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.

James Felici

#28. The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.

Ann Lauterbach

#29. Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Constanze Mozart

#30. Art is the communication of ecstasy.

P.D. Ouspensky

#31. The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication ... is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

Marshall McLuhan

#32. 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.

William Mortensen

#33. Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world ... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Abraham Lincoln

#34. Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Emmanuel Jal

#35. As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley

#36. Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

Ruth Sawyer

#37. No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

Storm Jameson

#38. Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.

David Finckel

#39. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.

Jennifer Echols

#40. Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

Gerald R. Ford

#41. Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

L. Ron Hubbard

#42. But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Wole Soyinka

#43. The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

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

Ayn Rand

#45. To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in the realm of ideas, of the arts, and of science can help refashion these false images. And by seeing more clearly we may act more wisely.

Chester Bowles

#46. The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Jacques D'Amboise

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

Claes Oldenburg

#48. In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life ... Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

Leo Tolstoy

#49. The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Hayley Atwell

#50. Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Paul Simon

#51. The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

Ralph Ellison

#52. The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the consideration of Rhetoric, in the large sense in which that art was conceived by the ancients; or of the still more extensive art of Education.

John Stuart Mill

#53. Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

John Piper

#54. The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Shepard Fairey

#55. To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

Asger Jorn

#56. I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#57. In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry
in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.

Dodie Smith

#58. The temple of art is built in words.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#59. Art is a communication informing man of his own dignity, and of the value of his life, whether in joy or grief, whether in laughter or indignation, beauty or terror ... Man needs the comfort of his own dignity ... And that's what the artisf is for. To give him that comfort.

Robert Nathan

#60. All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Lionel Hampton

#61. It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

Frank Miller

#62. The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Will Cotton

#63. Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?

Fennel Hudson