Since the beginning of the Silences project we based ourselves on five types of silence and five relations of silence. It was a way to order our thoughts in order to make it grow: we needed a possible framework!
The quotes we use inspire us and put light on the way, help to create a clear roadmap and have been and are many times a way to explain, to offer or to propose the project: to the artists, to the team, to the people who offer us their silences, to the children who accompany us, to the schools and to ourselves!
_ types
1 Creative silence
4 Cultural silence
“Creation does not need purity
but silence.”
— Josep M. Esquirol
2 Spatial silence
“Silence is a denial of noise – but the smallest noise in the midst of silence becomes enormous.”
— Joan Miró
3 Reflective silence
"With words, man surpasses animals but with silence he surpasses himself."
— Paul Masson
"Every language has its own silence."
— Elias Canetti
5 Educational silence
"The daily practice of silence will transform students as well as teachers to inhabit the same reality. This will raise the level of thinking in the classroom; understanding will grow to offer emotional balance in the spiritual dimension."
— Pythagoras
_ relations
5 Silence and Music
9 Silence and Destruction
“When you listen to Mozart,
the silence that follows is still Mozart.”
— Sacha Guitry
6 Silence and Fear
“There is something threatening
about a silence too big.”
— Sophocles
7 Silence and Emptiness
“Not all distance is absence
nor all silence forgotten.”
— Mario Sarmiento
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
— Martin Luther King
10 Silence and Death
“The rest is silence.”
— William Sahkespeare
HAMLET