Edward Dahlberg Quotes

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

I have no message.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

We must look a long time before we can see.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

The more I see, the less I know.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

think of nothing things think of wind

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul