Quotes About Language

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

The temple of art is built in words.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows