Quotes About Words

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

All verbal spats have silent winners.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

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.

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.

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.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

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.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.