About Quote by Mark Stevens

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

— Orhan Pamuk

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

— Dan Wakefield

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very…

— William Baziotes

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

— Gregory of Nyssa

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women;…

— Honore de Balzac

Art destroys silence.

— Alicia Ostriker

Painting is silent poetry.

— Plutarch

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

— Robert Adams

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in…

— Freya Stark

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

— Susan Sontag

Art is meant to disturb

— Georges Braque