The art of communication is the language of leadership.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness for speech is itself a critique of life: it names it characterizes it passes judgment in that it creates.
In the world of language or in other words in the world of art and liberal education religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage to love my first language Spanish to learn about Mexican history music folk art food and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist in love with art smitten with art history. You're also a woman with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
Like music and art love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing work incredibly hard learn a new language and new customs and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
It's amazing how age after age in country after country and in all languages Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
In days of doubt in days of dreary musings on my country's fate you alone are my comfort and support oh great powerful righteous and free Russian language!
The English Bible - a book which if everything else in our language should perish would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.