Quotes About Silence

When the guns roar, the arts die.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

We take our last look at the killing noise.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

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