Paulo Coelho Quotes

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

The advantage of doing away with words is that you can reach out to any part of the world.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.