Sherman Alexie Quotes

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous.

Art transcends cultural boundaries.

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool.

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Everybody draws when they are little.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

You can go to some countries where people may not be able to conversate with you, but they can sing your lyrics word for word.

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to us across space and time and culture.

Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.