Art Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.”

— Amy King

“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Words were not things you could control.…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Every time I do something for you, I’m trying to demonstrate the words I cannot say.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“I do not own the words used to debase me in any way shape or form. I gladly take the shrapnel and shower it…

— Christy Leigh Stewart

“Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who…

— Oliver Burkeman

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.”

— Toba Beta

“You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions…

— Frank Portman

“One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink…

— Alasdair Gray