“Signs are important because they can mean something other than themselves” — Sean Hall Copy Share Image
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen Copy Share Image
“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.” — Doris Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The transference of culture in time can, in large measure, be described as the conservation of sign systems serving as a control… — Doris Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when one has to make up one’s mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“True wrestling, wrong called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to the spectacular nature of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of… — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not… — Moby Copy Share Image
“[A TV commercial] crossed my desk in 1986. It came with a press release boasting about an enormous production budget employed in… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All arguments between the traditional scientific view of man as organism, a locus of needs and drives, and a Christian view of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“This book has two determinants: on the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“For “Copito de Nieve”, [...] the contact with the tire seems to be something affective, possessive, and somehow symbolic. From it he… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Eco's emphasis is a productivist one: his view of sign production, and especially of the mode he calls invention, associating it with… — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
“Every view which interprets the symbolic expression as an analogous or abbreviated expression of a known thing is semiotic. A view which… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I believe in the semiotics of clothes. They send a message about how the world perceives us. For me it goes beyond… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
“To tune truly in to the frequency of truth, theo-semioticians need a sound system; prayer as your subwoofer, fasting as your equalizer,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“...no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
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