Quotes About Language

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

art, n. This word has no definition.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.