User talk:UHM/streamofconsciousness

Signs
Semiotics is the study of signs in the most generic sense, it might be what you're looking for. Both "language" and "art" both invoke thoughts inside people who are receiving them, often with some ambiguity. If you were to speak of either of them in terms that actually represented their substance, you'd find very little difference. In the real world both end up being just squiggles on paper at the end of the day, the categorisation of the two is just in the head, really. d hominem 17:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I'm familiar with the term though. -- 18:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)