“Signs are important because they can mean something other than themselves” — Sean Hall 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
“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
“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.” — Ho Tzu Nyen 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
“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
“Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.” — Philip Pullman 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
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
“It was not Gilda and a racquet being used reflexively to some purpose. It was not Gilda using a racquet. It was… — Steven L. Peck 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
Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if… — Naomi Wolf 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
I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I… — Michael Salu 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
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
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
“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
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
“[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
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The ‘healthy’ sign, for Barthes, is one which draws attention to its own arbitrariness—which does not try to palm itself off as… — Terry Eagleton 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
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley 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
“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
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better… — Ira Glass 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
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
“My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
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