Soon silence will have passed into legend. Humans have turned their back on silence. Day after day they invent machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Jean Arp (1886 CE-1966 CE), Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as Dadaist and abstract artist.