Silence is so accurate.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Silence is so accurate.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Music is the silence between the notes.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

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

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

I love silence.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Great souls suffer in silence.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.