Quotes About Communication

To turn yourself into an image is to expose your daily life, your misfortunes, your desires and your possibilities. It is to have no secrets left. Never to tire of expressing yourself, speaking, communicating. To be readable at every moment, overexposed to the glare of the information media (like the woman who appears live twenty-four hours a day on the Internet, showing the tiniest details of her life).

In the beginning was the word. It was only afterwards that the Silence came. The end itself has disappeared...

meaning is born out of the erosion of words, significations are born out of the erosion of signs

We have at this millennium end produced the perfect specimen of the species in the form of mobile-phone man. But even he will disappear before the future digital prosthesis, who will leave room in turn only for telepathic ghosts.

There is no point questioning reality when more than ten are present. Every audience of more than ten automatically turns defensive and reacts violently to any challenge to reality and manifest truth. No radical statement can be made to more than ten people.

She sucks at her words as they come out. She seems to practise a constant fellatio on the words she pronounces.

Today, generalized communication and surplus information threaten to overwhelm all human defences.

All terms with negative prefixes are already stereotyped language.

Everywhere socialization is measured by the exposure to media messages. Whoever is underexposed to the media is desocialized or virtually asocial.

One of the two adversaries is a rug salesman, the other an arms salesman: they have neither the same logic nor the same strategy, even though they are both crooks. There is not enough communication between them to enable them to make war upon each other.

Her geçen gün daha çok haber ve bilgiye kar??n giderek daha az anlam?n üretildiÄŸi bir evrende ya??yoruz.

Here lies the total abstraction and the source of all domination: in the breakdown of the dual relation. The strategy of domination is, indeed, to ensure that, through all the techniques of communication, through inescapable, streaming information, there can no longer be any response. It is a domination by signs empty of meaning. But, on the other side, there is an equal indifference and blank resistance.

Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. –

Nu v? mulÅ£umiÅ£i cu acele întâlniri în timpul c?rora daÅ£i pe gât tot felul de alcooluri,f?r? s? v? spuneÅ£i nimic.

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.