Creative Communication Quotes

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.

For me, film is an extremely powerful way of conveying a message to a mainstream audience.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

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.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.