#communication

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. ↗

— Rockwell Kent

#art #communication #comprehensible #mankind #means

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#adult #ago #behave #communication #each

As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#available #believe #communication #expression #i

Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#communication

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#body #communication #conjunction #consequence #feelings

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#everywhere #proved #regimes #technology #telecommunications

It only becomes art if it touches other people. ↗

— Andreas Eschbach

#communication #music #performing #philosophical #philosophy

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#anything #characterizes #communication #cultural #failures

A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#truth #communication

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another? ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#the-other #communication