Doe Quote by Georges Didi-Huberman

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world…

— Chris Abani

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That…

— Shunryu Suzuki

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly…

— Plato

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

— Katherine McCoy

... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and…

— Mark Doty

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that…

— Godfrey Reggio

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible…

— Gertrude Stein

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

— Virginia Woolf

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are…

— Garth Stein

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

— Stanley Fish