“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.” WorldWantDoeArtMomentsDreamActionSpiritualMovingLiteratureSilenceConditionsEmotionalPaintingHigherQuietHighestMoodPrimariesYour DreamsMelodyYearningFabricAspireStatuesGood Words Author:Ben Okri
“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.” PeopleWayMeanSelfBeautifulPowerfulSilencePainting Author:David Luiz
“Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.” LightSilencePaintingShadowCastsEdgesToneCompanion Author:Pierre Coupey
“A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.” ArtLeftSpeakSilencePaintingArt IsNotesActiveArchitectureVoidUtteranceLeft OutSilence Speaks Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.” PeopleIfsBeautifulFacesNightSidesSpaceSilenceBeautyTreeSkyEventsObjectsPaintingFlowerPagesUniqueGainsEmptyNotesCornersSignificantGrassAutumnSignificanceCandleCasualFramed Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.” WritingIdeasEyeSongSilenceMagicTearsPaintingWindCreatingSongwritingClosestBlankSongwritersCanvasSinger SongwritersBlank CanvasPainting A Picture Author:Rodney Atkins
“Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.” HeartEndsLanguageSilencePaintingStandingMortalsBreathingStatues Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.” Has BeensMadeImportantDecisionSilencePaintingDrawsRadioListening To MusicImportant DecisionsPublic Radio Author:Sophie Blackall