#language

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#language #spelling #grammar

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending. ↗

— Cees Nooteboom

#fantasy #language #night-thoughts #self-deception #self-knowledge

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#expectation #find #i #kind #language

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#another #another way #been #being #being used

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

#basic #cases #color #continually #different

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#full #i #language #meaning #myself

High thoughts must have high language. ↗

— Aristophanes

#language #must #thoughts

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #differ #good #good art #household

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich das Deutsche allzu widerstandslos als eine Art Dorftrottel unter den Sprachen präsentiert, der nicht in der Lage ist, für aktuelle Gegenstände aus seinem angestammten Wortschatz neue Begriffe zu bilden, und sich statt dessen auf eine Weise, die ein amerikanischer Kommentator als ‚vorauseilende Unterwürfigkeit’ bezeichnete, mit schlaffer, alterfleckiger Hand aus dem weltweit dampfenden englischen Breitopf bedient. ↗

— Max Goldt

#art