Assuming Quote by Jodi Picoult

“If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will…

— Sherman Alexie

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

— William Carlos Williams

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be…

— James Whistler

“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.”

— Shelan Rodger

“People sometimes say: 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' That's true. But language is never far away. To talk about the picture, you…

— David Crystal

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it…

— Mark Ryden

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

— Greta Gerwig

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has…

— Jean Webster

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with…

— Freya Stark

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

— Tibor Kalman

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

— Gaston Bachelard

“We say, ‘I see what you mean,’ it’s the metaphor for clarity. But sometimes I wish people could see the pictures in my head,…

— Warren Ellis