Communication Quote by Edgar Degas

Why talk when you can paint?

— Milton Avery

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing--…

— Gerhard Richter

Design is meant to grab you and win you over. It is meant to function in a way so as to make life easier.…

— Philip Taaffe

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

— James Elkins

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other…

— William S. Burroughs

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

— Hans Hofmann

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

— Stacy Martin

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

— Sidney Nolan

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think

— Nick Cannon

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the…

— Claes Oldenburg

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

— Francis Bacon