„To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.“
Louise Bourgeois6
französisch-US-amerikanische Bildhauerin und Malerin 1911 - 2010Ähnliche Zitate
— John Updike American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic 1932 - 2009
— Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director 1932 - 1986
— Kara Walker African American artist 1969
On becoming an artist in “‘There’s No Diploma in the World That Declares You an Artist’: Watch Kara Walker Lay Out Her Advice for Art Students” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/watch-kara-walker-art-21-1316030 in artnetnews (2018 Jul 12)
„An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.“
— Henry Miller, buch Wendekreis des Krebses
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer
„Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.“
— Jodi Picoult, buch Small Great Things
Quelle: Small Great Things
„Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.“
— Catherine of Siena Italian Dominican saint 1347 - 1380
quoted in [LifeSite, The heart of the Catholic Church's current crisis is the abandonment of law and doctrine - LifeSite, 2022-06-07, 2022-05-05, https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-heart-of-the-catholic-churchs-current-crisis-is-the-abandonment-of-law-and-doctrine/]
Variant versions:
I see the world is rotten because of silence … speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills. (quoted at 0:23 of [Randall Terry, The Silence That Kills, 2022-06-07, 2020-10-19, 23:29, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2ncPIgui0])
Original Italian: Oimé, non più tacere! Gridate con centomiglia di lingue. Veggo che, per lo tacere, el mondo è guasto, la Sposa di Cristo è impalidita ( Lettera 16, "A uno grande prelato" http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/eki.htm#q)
lit.: "O alas, be silent no more! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that, through silence, the world is broken, the Bride of Christ is impaled"
„A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.“
— Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985
„I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.“
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, buch Das Spiel des Engels
Quelle: The Angel's Game
— Diane Setterfield, buch The Thirteenth Tale
Quelle: The Thirteenth Tale
— Norman Mailer American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate 1923 - 2007
As quoted in The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden (1968) by David W. Noble, p. 204
— Amit Ray Indian author 1960
OM Chanting and Meditation (2010) http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/OM_Chanting_and_Meditation.html?id=3KKjPoFmf4YC,
— Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966
'Excerpts from the Teaching of Hans Hofmann', p. 59
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
„Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.“
— Jonathan Safran Foer, buch Alles ist erleuchtet
Quelle: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Kontext: "You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child."(But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths in order to protect you. That is also why I try so inflexibly to be a funny person. Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.)
