Language

“Language is not my private property. That is complete nonsense.”

“結局、自分で理解してる言葉でしゃべることが大切なんですよね。”

“On ne trouve plus rien à dire alors on fait des phrases, on arrange la vérité.”

“I've been a bag boy a thousand times in five languages.”

“Drawing is a universal language.”

“We, the Georgian people, have inherited three divine gifts from our ancestors: our motherland, our language and our faith.”

“My only duty as a poet is to defend the use of language.”

“Био сам танак као чакља, провидан, па је од чакља постало Чкаља.”

“It was just because we do in fact all know how to make such comments.”

“Thus it is evident that the utterances of a non-Iranian or non-Central Asian are authoritatively exemplary if he has exerted himself perfectly in the pedagogical imitation of masters and kept the company of competent speakers.”

“What am I writing into? What am I writing over?”

“This is my language. I place it in a painting or a statue, and say: “Look!””

“Cinema is a language that should be seen, that should cross borders.”

“Mime is a universal art. It speaks in a speechless tongue that is immediately comprehensible to everyone.”

“Words are, like to me, as bricks are to a bricklayer.”

“Am I not preparing for the great object of embellishing the tongue of my fathers?”

“The faith can be meaningful only when Christ is encountered as speaking and acting authentically, when he is heard in the African languages.”

“I want to win a Grammy and say ‘thank you’ in Korean.”