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Convey Quotes

Words on expression, meaning, and communication

These convey quotes explore the effort behind expression, whether spirits attempting to reach the living or painters trying to share their vision of the world. Several admit that words alone are not always Able to capture the full picture.

Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent...

Quotes by Christina Binkley

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Quotes by Christina Aguilera

Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.

Quotes by Chris Meledandri

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of...

Quotes by Charles Sturt

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Quotes by Charles R. Swindoll

I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character....

Quotes by Carla Gugino

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the...

Quotes by Bruce Willis

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Quotes by Bruce Babbitt

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end...

Quotes by Brian Sibley

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

Quotes by Bret Stephens

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

Quotes by Billy Sunday

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.

Quotes by Bernard Sumner

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

Quotes by Ashwin Sanghi

If I have been fortunate enough to have risen to a level in this business where people would actually listen to me, then I think I have a duty to convey all truths that I encounter.

Quotes by Ashleigh Banfield

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what...

Quotes by Arthur Phillips

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Quotes by Arthur Erickson

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

Quotes by Antonio Guterres

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Quotes by Antony Beevor

I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create...

Quotes by Annabelle Selldorf

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Quotes by Ann Leckie

Frequently Asked Questions

What's this Convey quotes collection about?
This page gathers quotes about the struggle and purpose of conveying meaning — through film, music, painting, and words themselves. It circles around the idea that some things are genuinely hard to express fully, no matter the medium. For more on expressing meaning through art, see Good.
Why do people search for convey quotes?
People often look for convey quotes when writing about creative expression or communication, especially the challenge of putting something deeply felt into words or art. Others are drawn to quotes that compare different mediums, like painting versus vision. It connects with Able for readers thinking about what expression can and can't achieve.
Is there a quote here comparing art to another kind of perception?
Yes — the quote comparing a painter's job in showing us the world as they see it to an eye doctor's job in helping us see the world as it truly is offers a thoughtful parallel between artistic and clinical perception. It's a layered pick for captions about how differently people interpret reality. That comparison is one of the more intellectually rich entries here.
What about a quote on the limits of words themselves?
The line arguing that language on its own can never fully capture the depths of the soul or the grandeur of the human spirit speaks to the limits of language when facing something truly profound. It's a strong choice for captions about experiences that feel bigger than what can be said. That humility about language's limits gives it real weight.
What's useful about reading the whole Convey collection?
Together, these quotes show conveying meaning as a challenge across film, music, painting, and plain language, which helps illustrate why creative work often falls short of fully capturing intention. That shared struggle across mediums is what ties the collection together. For more on expression and meaning, Life and Me are worth exploring too.

Others describe music and faith as vehicles for conveying something deeper about Life. For related themes, see our Good quotes collection.