Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

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

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.

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

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

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

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

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

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

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

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.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

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

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

Film is anti-language.

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.

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.