Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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.
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress
You came so that you could learn about your dream,” said the old woman. “And dreams are the language of God.
He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.
I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
