Freya Stark Quotes

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

• Music
• Art
• Painting
• Silence
• Architecture

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Journey
  • Limits
  • Reggae

• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Friends
  • Marriage
  • Spring

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Happiness

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Gay

• Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Ingenuity
  • Castro

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Think
  • Political
  • Myself

• So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Listening
  • Limits
  • Wondering

• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

  

  Dorothy Thompson
  • Mind
  • Fear

• Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Work
  • Appreciate

• You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.

  

  John Twelve Hawks

• Horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Love
  • Horses
  • Hats

• 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
  • Music
  • Art
  • Painting