Semiotics Quotes

• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  Umberto Eco

  Communication, Philosophical, Fields

  "Fifteen Questions with Umberto Eco". Q&A with William R. Dingee, www.thecrimson.com. November 17, 2011.

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• Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Order, Discipline

  Umberto Eco (1976). “A Theory of Semiotics”, p.7, Indiana University Press

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• Creo que lo que llegamos a ser depende de lo que nuestros padres nos enseñan en momentos raros, cuando no están intentando enseñarnos. Nos formamos con pequeños retazos de sabiduría.

  Umberto Eco

  Día del Padre, Papá, Creer

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.

  Tim Gunn

  Clothes, World, Messages

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• Me doy cuenta de que después de pasar tanto tiempo trabajando con imágenes, la deconstrucción semiótica y la redistribución se convierten en algo natural. Todos hablamos con imágenes. Supongo que hoy en día lo miro todo de reojo.

  Michael Salu

  Largo, Miradas, Darse Cuenta

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• He llegado a creer que el mundo entero es un enigma, un enigma inofensivo que se hace terrible por nuestro propio intento loco de interpretarlo como si tuviera una verdad subyacente.

  Umberto Eco

  Vida, Ingenioso, Poderoso

  Umberto Eco (2007). "El péndulo de Foucault", p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  Umberto Eco

  Mentira, Libro, Lectura

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• One of the reasons I love language is that concerning semiotics, language is an arbitrary sign system, which means the signs within it are free-floating, but we put them in a certain order to get them to have meaning for us. If we left them alone, they'd be like water, like the ocean. It would be just this vast field of free-floating matter or signs, so in this way, I think language and water have much in common. It's only us bringing grammar and syntax and diction and the human need for meaning that orders language, hierarchizes it.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Ocean, Mean, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners - almost everything. Vocabulary. Semiotic usages. Clothing. Even food. Women... women tend to eat less... It's extremely hard to separate the innate differences from the learned ones. Even where women participate equally with men in the society, they still after all do all the childbearing, and so most of the child-rearing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Men, Vocabulary

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Left Hand Of Darkness”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• When Britney shaves off all her hair and beats paparazzi with umbrellas - that's what celebrities are supposed to do. They're not supposed to be reasonable, middle-aged guys drinking organic tea talking about semiotics.

  Moby

  Drinking, Hair, Talking

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.

  James Paul Gee

  Leer, escribir, pensar

  James Paul Gee (2014). “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition”, p.21, Macmillan

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• I believe in the semiotics of clothes. They send a message about how the world perceives us. For me it goes beyond clothes, it's grooming. It's accessories. It's the whole head to toe look.

  Tim Gunn

  Believe, Clothes, World

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• As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Lying, Want

  "Umberto Eco: La gente está cansada de las cosas sencillas. Quieren que se les desafíe'". Entrevista con Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. 27 de noviembre de 2011.

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• The good of a book lies in its being read.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Book

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• La mayoría de mis elecciones formales son una combinación de todo lo que aprendí sobre la forma: semiótica, lingüística y la historia de las experimentaciones estilísticas vinculadas a los movimientos literarios (formalismo, deconstrucción, modernismo y posmodernismo), y el principio básico de romper todas las reglas que aprendí de una tradición de escritura patriarcal que nunca incluyó mi cuerpo ni mi experiencia y que, por tanto, no tiene nada que ofrecerme en términos de representación.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Escritura, Opciones, Estilo

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

  Umberto Eco

  Fear, Humility, Religion

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.503, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.

  Keith Murray

  Children, Real, Hands

  "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

  Helen Vendler

  Art, Play, Utterance

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• No me gusta eso de que "el arte debería desafiarte". Porque no creo que el arte realmente te desafíe. Estudié semiótica en Brown, y existe la idea de que las historias son mejores, los libros son mejores y las películas son mejores si te sacan de tu eje y te desorientan por completo y tienes que replanteártelo todo.

  Ira Glass

  Art, Book, Challenges

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I am really interested in who owns ideas of religion. What if I say I'm a libertarian, socialist, Occupy-supporting, anti-war, Christian? Is that a controversial idea? I don't see anything really in the original semiotics of Christianity, in the specific parable of the radical socialist Jew from Galilee who becomes the hero figure in the Homeric-word-of-mouth-gossip-novel that becomes the Bible that should make that a paradox.

  Robert Montgomery

  Christian, War, Hero

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• El método ayuda a la intuición cuando no se transforma en dictadura. La intuición aumenta el método si no infunde anarquía. En cada momento de nuestra existencia semiótica, método e intuición se complementan.

  Mihai Nadin

  Intuición, Doe, Anarquía

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• As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

  Jerome Rothenberg

  Sex, Taken, College

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• Liberals roll their eyes about going on "Oprah" to reach a mass audience by using language that anyone can understand even if you majored in semiotics at Yale. We look down on people we don't agree with. It doesn't serve us well.

  Naomi Wolf

  Eye, Yale, People

  "NEWS & POLITICS Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Art, Practice

  Peter Wollen (1982). “Readings and writings: semiotic counter-strategies”, New Left Books

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• Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Men, Hands

  "The Marriage Plot: A Novel". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

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