Art Quote by David Salle

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as…

— Ben Shahn

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more…

— Boots Riley

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

“Art is more than a sum of cultural signs: It is a language both direct and associative, and has a grammar and syntax like…

— David Salle

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

— Damian Loeb

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and…

— John Baldessari

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

— Antony Gormley

Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well? Does it…

— David Salle

“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art,…

— Walker Percy

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

— Will Cotton

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

— James Elkins

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself…

— Leo Tolstoy