Aesthetic Language Quotes

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

I love the musicality of words.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Poetry is language in orbit.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me in a way, as if someone came up to you and started speaking a language you'd never heard but understood and was able to express things the language you knew could not.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

I must use beautiful words. I never know when I might have to eat them.

It blew my mind, reading Swing Time, that I could take any sentence in the book, and it was one of the most beautiful sentences written in English.

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.