Language Art Quotes

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Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

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

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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

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

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

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

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.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

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.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

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

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

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.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Poetry is language in orbit.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

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.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

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

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.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

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.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.