An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. Herbert Marcuse
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. Luke Harding
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain
Every man prays in his own language. Duke Ellington
You must answer the devil in his own language. Hindi Proverb