Quotes about description
description explanation
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Ludwig Wittgenstein
description observation left
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. John Archibald Wheeler
description chains
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. John Fowles
description elsewhere
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Jane Austen
description
A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Roland Barthes
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. Gaston Bachelard
description multiple
Multiple descriptions are better than one. Gregory Bateson
description
The description is not the described. Jiddu Krishnamurti