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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
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)
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
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."
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
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
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))
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
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)
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 17 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
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.
The Pressisatoncethe eyeand the earand thetongue of the people.It isthe visible speech, if not the voice, of the democracy. It is the phonograph of the world.
William Thomas Stead— 1886 'Government byJournalism', in the Contemporary Review, May. Collected in A Journalist onJournalism (1892).
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 13 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
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
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
charles a. reich— Chapter VII : "It's Just Like Living", p. 181
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
The very fact that a Line is visible implies that it possesses yet another Dimension.
edwin abbot— Chapter 16. How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.
Franz Kafka— "Paradise"
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"
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).
A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, Prometheus, line 216.
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)
"I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, AND MOHAMED, AN APOSTLE OF GOD" is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honor of the Prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtues; and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.
— Simon Ockley, History of the Saracen Empires, London, 1870, p. 54
