Bizarre Quote by Robert Longo

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

— A. S. Byatt

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

— Marion Milner

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept.

— Michael Rosen

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

— Pierre Bonnard

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem…

— David Antin

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened…

— Walter Benjamin

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis