Languages Quotes (page 2)
![Bertrand Russell quote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make..."](/pic/297324/600x316/quotation-bertrand-russell-language-serves-not-only-to-express-thought.jpg)
![Edward Sapir quote: "Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a..."](/pic/292241/600x316/quotation-edward-sapir-language-is-the-most-massive-and-inclusive-art-we.jpg)
![Carlos Fuentes quote: "Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is..."](/pic/289142/600x316/quotation-carlos-fuentes-language-is-always-the-companion-of-empire-and.jpg)
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in the unresolved or partially resolved tension of disparates. A word fixed or a statement isolated without any decorative or ‘cubist’ visual format, becomes a perception of similarity in dissimilars—in short a paradox.
Robert Smithson
![Salman Rushdie quote: "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to..."](/pic/274355/600x316/quotation-salman-rushdie-language-is-courage-the-ability-to-conceive-a.jpg)