Communicate Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has…

— 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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

— Plutarch

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look…

— John Marin

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people,…

— Raphael Soyer

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

— William Golding

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them.…

— Charles Demuth

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Sidney Nolan

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human…

— Francesco Clemente

I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they wouldn't be…

— LeCrae