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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"
"They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.'You?'Great.They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence."
"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."
"One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least."
"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language."
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings."
"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."
"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."
"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings."
"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."
"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."
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