Communicating Through Art Quotes

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.

The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

Great artists suffer for the people.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

I put my all into performing so people can walk away knowing a bit more about me and feel the passion in my story.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

We know how to convey exactly what we want to convey. We know how it makes us feel and we know exactly how to show our fans how to feel the same way.

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.