Language Quotes
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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
Jenny Holzer
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Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.
William W. Johnstone
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
Terence McKenna
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My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.
Norval Morrisseau
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
Terence McKenna
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It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
Judith Butler
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Simple is the language of truth.
Seneca the Younger
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
John Ruskin
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
George Horace Lorimer
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Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
Ansel Adams
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If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
Terence McKenna
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I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
Erica Jong
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
Brett Gelman
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
Terence McKenna
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
Charles Kay Ogden
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Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.
Milton Babbitt
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
Errol Morris
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Paul Gauguin
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
John Ruskin
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If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
Dean Falk