Communication Quotes - Page 11

• Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

  Karen Black

  People, Illiteracy

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• If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

  Richard Rosen

  America, Preventing, Seventies

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• It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

  G. Wilson Knight

  Spirit, Easier, Communicate

  G. Wilson Knight (2017). “Routledge Revivals: Neglected Powers (1971): Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature”, p.33, Routledge

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• I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

  Leonard Baskin

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

  Mark Twain

  Talking, Risk

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

  Katherine Paterson

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.

  Henry Moore

  Eye, Artist, Trying

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• Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

  Edgar Degas

  Real, Half, Painting

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• Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

  Georges Braque

  Talking, Painting, Valuable

  "Les Problèmes de la Peinture". Interview with Gaston Diehl in Paris, 1945.

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• You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Mass

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• Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  People, Say Anything, May

  "Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha". Lecture at the Zen Mountain Center, suzukiroshi.sfzc.org. August 17, 1971.

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• We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

  Lewis Thomas

  Talking, Trying, Messages

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

  John Constable

  Talking, Humanity, Lawyer

  John Constable (1968). “Correspondence”

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• 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

  Art, Believe, Feelings

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• A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

  Isaac Stern

  Want, Force, Translate

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• There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

  Mary Martin

  Artist, Light, World

  Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin (1987). “Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art”

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• Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Dream, Thinking, Play

  Milton H. Erickson, Ronald A. Havens (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy”, p.63, Ardent Media

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• A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

  Yann Martel

  Novelists, Pages

  "Life of Pi author Yann Martel: 'Overall, I think it's a wonderful companion piece'". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. November 21, 2012.

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

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Reality, Men

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 145), 2002.

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• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

  Hermann Hesse

  Different, Littles, Language

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• There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

  John Locke

  Rude, Currents, Discourse

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Some thoughts concerning education. An examination of P. Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God. A discourse of miracles. Memoirs relating to the life of Anthony, first earl of Shaftesbury. Some familiar letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends”, p.139

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• Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Reading, Thoughtful

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• Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Self, Expression, Thought Provoking

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• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Change, Humor

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• Give me the gift of a listening heart.

  Solomon

  Heart, Giving, Listening

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