Quotes About Silence

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

The less I say the more my work gets done.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn't say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.

Steve Buscemi, in between takes, becomes like a clam. It's hard to get a word out of him. It's very funny.

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.

The ability to be frightening with stillness is what appeals to me.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know.

There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.