"And they write innumerable books;
being too vain and distracted for silence:
seeking every one after his own elevation,
and dodging his emptiness."
—T. S. Eliot
"Every now and then, when you're on stage,
you hear the best sound a player can hear.
It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence
that means you've hit them where they live."
—Shelley Winters
"Music is the silence between the notes."
—Claude Debussy
"Now all my teachers are dead except silence."
—W. S. Merwin
"Silence is a source of great strength."
—Lao Tzu
"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.
There is always something to see, something to hear.
In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."
—John Cage
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
—Ansel Adams
being too vain and distracted for silence:
seeking every one after his own elevation,
and dodging his emptiness."
—T. S. Eliot
"Every now and then, when you're on stage,
you hear the best sound a player can hear.
It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence
that means you've hit them where they live."
—Shelley Winters
"Music is the silence between the notes."
—Claude Debussy
"Now all my teachers are dead except silence."
—W. S. Merwin
"Silence is a source of great strength."
—Lao Tzu
"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.
There is always something to see, something to hear.
In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."
—John Cage
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
—Ansel Adams