A Quote by Antonin Artaud

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Antonin Artaud

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Antonin Artaud
French - Dramatist
September 4, 1896 - March 4, 1948

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

Rene Daumal

A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like to chatter, you would like to just hold their hand and live and be silent in that moment. If you chatter, that means you are avoiding the person - love is not really there. If you love life, chattering will drop, because every moment is so filled with life that there is no way, no space to chatter. Each moment life is flooding you so vitally - where is the time to gossip and chatter?

Rajneesh

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Frances Mayes

When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff.

Jennifer Konner

I was very unsure of myself when I was young and an ugly little beggar with protruding teeth, so I used to lie on them at night to try to straighten them.

Engelbert Humperdinck

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why good paintings are incomprehensible. Creating the incomprehensible has absolutely nothing to do with turning out any old bunkum, because bunkum is always comprehensible.

Gerhard Richter

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Charles Darwin

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

T. B. Joshua

I shaved away my teeth and made them into little pencil points for nice teeth, that's kind of weird if you think about it. I was a notorious teeth-grinder, so all my front teeth became a couple millimeters shorter.

Chrissy Teigen

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Karl Kraus

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

Kevin Kline

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!