Howard Hodgkin Quotes

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Language is a social art.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

You couldn't have human society without language.

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

My language is the sum total of myself.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.