“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
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“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.
Context: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
“It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.”
Discourses on Art
“Silence more musical than any song.”
Sonnet. Rest; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.”
Speech of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest Vol. 111, No. 666, (October 1977)