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Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before...

Quotes by Mari Carmen Ramirez

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Quotes by Mari Evans

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Quotes by Marcus du Sautoy

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand...

Quotes by Marcel Carne

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

As software began to be sold to people who would never consider themselves technical, it suddenly became clear that you needed people who spoke their language.

Quotes by Marc Randolph

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Quotes by Manuel Puig

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Quotes by Marc Anthony

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean...

Quotes by Mani Ratnam

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

Quotes by Malcolm Nance

Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.

Quotes by Malik Yoba

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

Quotes by Mahesh Babu

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

Speech happens to not be his language.

Quotes by Madame de Stael

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

Quotes by Mack Wilberg

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

Quotes by Maajid Nawaz

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

Quotes by Maajid Nawaz

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Quotes by Lytton Strachey

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

Quotes by Lytton Strachey

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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