Best expression & silence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.”

Silence Enemy Expression Ought Speech Painter Mute

Author:Ben Okri

“I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.”

“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”

Children Seems Silence Expression Cold Speech Silent Significant Unhappiness Outsiders Widows Accompany Inconsequential Deceased Impassioned

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.”

Dark Silence Principles Expression Ideals Permanent Overwhelming Extinction Covering Contemplative Tranquillity

Author:Arnulf Rainer

“Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.”

Love Reason Joy Silence Expression Gay Delight Paradox Yearning Tenderness Silence Is Sigh Saddest

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

Age Night Wealth Silence Poverty Youth Greatness Expression Old Age Day And Night

Book:Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.”

World Want Spirit Poetry Speak Silence Principles Creativity Knowing Poet Expression Relation Longing Busy Internals Poetic Mystical Bent Fruition Emanate Enigmatic Mystical Experiences

Author:Jacques Maritain

“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”

Way Needs Feels Heart Art Different Artist Silence Creativity Expression Quiet Ambition Workers Creator Credit Observers Quiet Heart

Book:Passionate Presence

Source: Passionate Presence

“Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.”

Heart Self Silence Expression Manifestation Meant To Be Self Expression

Book:Sheer joy: conversations with Thomas Aquinas on creation spirituality

Source: Sheer joy: conversations with Thomas Aquinas on creation spirituality

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

Source: William Shakespeare

“In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.”

Art Said Silence Expression Elements Technique Contradiction Devices Works Of Art Avoidance

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.”

Made Form Silence Steps Example Color Expression Concepts Letters Accomplished

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”

Humans Feelings Literature Language Silence History Missing Expression Contrary Noise Meaningless Deprivation Recourse Sensory Deprivation

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

Perfect Silence Expression Perfection Definitions Contempt Silence Is Scorn Silence Is Golden

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”

Life Trying Believe Art I Can Use Home Political Church Silence Expression Arms Defense Young Man Exile Cunning Self Expression Fatherland

Author:James Joyce

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