Debbie Millman Quotes

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

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

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

A picture is a poem without words.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none of my work is about me or my private life.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.