Quotes About Language

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Thou art a Castilian King urinal!

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

I'm going to punch words in your ear holes.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.