Language Quote by John Kani

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in…

— Edward Ruscha

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how…

— John Kani

“Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.”

— Henry Fielding

Im not Shakespeare to write about you, I am not Piccaso to Paint you, I am just yours who wants to say I am…

— Anonymous

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

— William Shakespeare

“Language is not unlike art in that words contain values of lights and darks, hues and tonalities, texture and sensuality. Words can paint complex…

— Elisa Lorello

“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

— William Butler Yeats

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle