Language Quote by Robert Smithson

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

— Robert Smithson

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

— John Locke

“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things…

— Paul Auster

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

— Katherine McCoy

“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an…

— Victor Hugo

... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and…

— Mark Doty

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer…

— J. L. Austin

“Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in…

— José Saramago

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we…

— David Berlinski