Art Quote by Nelson Shanks

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel that art is beyond language.

— Wangechi Mutu

Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

— Herbert Read

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

— Robert Henri

Language is no longer a barrier for artistes.

— Pranitha Subhash

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

— Thomas Harrison

“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

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson