Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    “If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.”
    —Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)