Communication Quote by Georges Bataille

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like…

— William H. Gass

“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

— Donald Barthelme

“drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine…

— Samuel Beckett

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Language ist not just a neutral vessel for conveying thoughts but is an invisible mold that actually shapes the way people think and perceive.”

— Anonymous

“The process of continually rereading and drawing out new meanings from words would not have been possible unless the words themselves were already open…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.”

— Megan Shepherd

“My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with…

— Washington Irving

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.”

— James N. Powell