Susan Sontag Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

  Susan Sontag

  Silence, Speech, Form

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

• Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

  Susan Sontag

  Silence, Waiting, Sound

  Susan Sontag (2001). “In America: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Silence, Elements

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.230, Macmillan

• In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Expression, Silence

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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