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A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.
friedensreich hundertwasser— Window Dictatorship and Window Rights (1990)
This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.
giordano bruno— As translated by Paul Harrison
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
Marcel Marceau— As quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."
When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
charles fletcher dole— The Coming People (1897)
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
lewis h. lapham— Chapter 1, The Gilded Cage, p. 28
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
— Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America,Chapter 1, The Gilded Cage, p. 28
Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
lewis h. lapham— Balzac's Garret, p. 88
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.
pierre stephen robert payne— The Five faces of Corruption, p. 31 (See also: Samuel P. Huntington..)
Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point in seeking what might exist in an inaccessible domain. I find it very difficult to understand this point of view since what is inaccessible today may become accessible tomorrow (as has happened by the invention of the microscope), and also because coherent assumptions on what is still invisible may increase our understanding of the visible.
Jean Baptiste Perrin— Nobel Lecture (11 December 1926)
“It was not the sense that something had been there. It was the sense that something was still there, palpable but not visible. A sense (and now he thought he was really losing his mind) that the forest was grieving, or that something in it was dying…a feeling, if he had to name it, that evil had been there.”
lis wiehl— pp. 24, 26 (Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson))
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.
damian pettigrew— On documentary subject matter, Le Parisien (May, 2003)
What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
Maria Edgeworth— 1806 Leonora, letter1.
Women, even though they are almost too visible as sex objects in this country, are invisible people.
— 1969 Speech at First National Conference for Repeal of Abortion Laws, Chicago.
All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.
ernst ludwig kirchner— 'Zeichnungen von E. L. Kirchner', (under his pseudonym Louis deMarsalle) E. L. Kirchner, Genius 2, Book 2, 1921, 216-234, reprinted by National Gallery, Washington D.C. 2003, p. 226
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not. They are pre-psychological expanses, red, for example, presupposing a site radiating heat. All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
yves klein— 1959 lecture at the Sorbonne; in: Studio International, Vol. 186 (1973), p. 43; Also quoted in: David Batchelor (2008) Colour. p. 122
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
william winwood reade— "Liberty", p. 314
Treading beneath their feet all visible things,As steps that upwards to their Father's throneLead gradual.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings
Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being’s party-coloured web.
arthur hugh clough— The Thread of Truth (1839).
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
james joyce— "James Clarence Mangan" (1902)
These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.
ulrike meinhof— Published in "Minor Literature: Case Study: the Red Army Faction"
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
pythagoras— As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 592
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.
bertrand russell— Dreams and Facts (1919).
The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing.
— Simone Weil, Last letter to Father Joseph-Marie Perrin, from a refugee camp in Casablanca (26 May 1942), as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 111.
In Indian Odissi dance, the performers’ body must be curved like a ‘S’ which passes through the head, shoulders and head. The principle of thribhangi sinuosity is clearly visible in all classical Indian statues…
— By Eugenio Barba in Eugenio Barba (9 March 2004). The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology. Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-203-36009-5.
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.
george henry lewes— George Henry Lewes, Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science (1864)
