Quotes by Language There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language. Jean Chretien dollarslanguagemoving I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Jean Cocteau veinswavelanguage Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. Jean Dubuffet communicationlanguageart Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. Jean Baudrillard innocencelanguagelong Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. Jean de la Bruyere despiselanguagekeys Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. Jean Baudrillard languagekindart Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves. Jean Dubuffet paintingabstractlanguage By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. Jean Genet stretchingwrapslanguage Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Jean Baudrillard floatslanguagetheory When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. Jean-Jacques Annaud internationallanguagebook The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. Jean-Jacques Annaud second-chancelanguageart The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us. Jean Cocteau languageusepeople Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary? Jean-Luc Godard languagedoubtreality Languages are the keys of science. Jean de la Bruyere languagekeys Music begins where the possibilities of language end. Jean Sibelius possibilitymusiclanguage The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. Jean-Paul Sartre languagecriticismorder The German language is the organ among the languages. Jean Paul german-languageorganslanguage Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. Jeane Kirkpatrick eyebrowswipelanguage Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Jeanette Winterson languagewantlying Language is a finding place, not a hiding place. Jeanette Winterson hiding-placehidinglanguage«4647484950515253545556»
