To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
Quotations
Silence
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
-Rasheed Ogunlaru
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
"The Passion According to G.H."
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
