#words

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#decided #enormous #feel #films #humiliation

Lying is done with words and also with silence. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#done #lying #silence #words

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decided #i #know #music #will

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#self-sacrifice #sacrifice

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#capable #cause #could #did #emotions

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#demolished #emotion #glance #suggested #words

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. ↗

— Bruce Feirstein

#never #settle #words #you

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. ↗

— Ted Shawn

#better #communicates #dance #deepest #emotions

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#acoustic #always #assaulting #because #get

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#common sense #concern #deceiving #eyes #interested