Quotes About Silence

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

All verbal spats have silent winners.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Why talk when you can paint?

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.