Joseph Campbell Quotes

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

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 open to hearing.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.

The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone.

I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!