Antony Gormley Quotes

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

People can express themselves better with images than just text, so they communicate more this way.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

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.

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

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.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Art is the skin of the soul.

The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Film is anti-language.

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.