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Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.
— Mary Wigman
Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)
— Susan Sontag
You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
— John Geddes
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
— Henri Matisse
Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.
— Rene Magritte
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
— Igor Babailov
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
— Wynona Mulcaster
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
— Edward Sapir
Poetry is language in orbit.
— Seamus Heaney
Language is a social art.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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.
— Charles De Lint
Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.
— Christopher Paolini
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.
— Laurence Overmire
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.
— Samuel V. Chamberlain
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art' ... For Indians, everything is art ... therefore needs no name.
— Jamake Highwater
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
— Rudolf Arnheim
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
— Jean-Jacques Annaud
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
— Walt Disney
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
— Robert Payne
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.
— Herbert Marcuse
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
— Henry Adams
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
— James Humes
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
— Alan Moore
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
— Marshall McLuhan
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.
— Frank Griswold
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
— Oscar Wilde
If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
— Elliot W. Eisner
Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.
— Jennifer New
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
— Jean Baudrillard
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.
— David Rees
And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
— Nelson Shanks
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
— Edward Gibbon
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
— Siri Hustvedt
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.
— Shepard Fairey
Art as language ... in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.
— Theo Van Doesburg
Mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
— Mark Twain
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
— Harold Pinter
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
— Anais Nin
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.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
— Betty Edwards
Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
— Anthony Burgess
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
— Jimmy Carter
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
— Krista Tippett
Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
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.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
— Ned Rorem
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
— Terence McKenna
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
— George Henry Lewes
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.
— Walter Darby Bannard
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language
— Herbie Hancock
Art is a language which everyone understands in their own way.
— Debasish Mridha
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
— Jenny Holzer
Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.
— Ron Silliman
The activity of art is ... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
— Leo Tolstoy
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
— Fannie Hurst
Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
— Debasish Mridha
Paraphrasing..Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
— Naguib Mahfouz
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
Language is an art, like brewing or baking ... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
— Charles Darwin