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Freya Stark Quotes about Silence

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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

Freya Stark
Art, Silence, Void
Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.193, I.B.Tauris

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Freya Stark
Travel, Sea, Silence
1948 Perseus in the Wind.

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

Freya Stark
Space, Silence, Style
Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.50, I.B.Tauris

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