I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves.
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.
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.
How many languages do we really speak?
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