Art Quote by Umberto Eco

I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did a lot…

— Chitra Ganesh

“This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible,…

— J. Jack Halberstam

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

— Luc Tuymans

I believe only in art and failure.

— Jane Rule

“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of…

— Umberto Eco

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition…

— Umberto Eco

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the…

— Edmund White

“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with my family,…

— Anonymous

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes