Animal-Human Communication Quotes

I really liked the idea of a talking horse in a human world.

All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart - even when the people are dressed identically - just by looking up at them through the water.

I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

It wasn't exactly like talking, but it went something like this: Could you give us a ride north, Percy asked, like as close to Portland as possible? Eat seals, the whale responded. Are you seals? No, Percy admitted. I've got a man satchel full of macrobiotic beef jerky, though. The whale shuddered. Promise not to feed me this, and I will take you north. Deal.