Antony Gormley Quotes

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

Are you prepared to take a dive into the deep end of my head?

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.