Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his
back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices
that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of
life, contemplation, meditation… tooting, howling, screeching,
booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his
ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously
like a gray vegetation.
Jean Arp
