Visible Quotes - Page 31

• Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Imagine, Invisible

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• The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Transparent

  "Of Love and Other Demons". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.sfgate.com. 1994.

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• The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Reality, Unseen

  Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma, William Butler Yeats (1933). “The Beginnings of the Irish Revival ...”

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• What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

  Dave Barry

  Sight, People, Important

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.139, Ballantine Books

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• All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Shops, Universe

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• The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

  Wright Morris

  Numbers, Landscape, Way

  Wright Morris (1989). “Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory”

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• In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

  Chris Matthews

  People, Earth, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't like life that much. It's not that big a deal for me... I don't want to know I have cancer till it's visible to the naked eye.

  Doug Stanhope

  Cancer, Eye, Naked

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• I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

  Robert Heinecken

  Keys, Interesting, Feelings

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• The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

  Lisa Birnbach

  School, Lines, Miami

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• When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

  Vicki Goldberg

  Photography, Ideas, People

  Vicki Goldberg (1991). “The power of photography: how photographs changed our lives”, Abbeville Pr

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• One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Watches, Photographer

  Stanley Cavell (1979). “The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Mind, Tangible

  Swami Vivekananda (1984). “Awakened India”

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• Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.

  Shimon Attie

  Mean

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• To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in individual and common optical aperception. Why? Because every individual sees in his own way but see little more than images shaped by the cultural standards of a given period.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Littles, Way, Common

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• A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Running, Moments, Photograph

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• I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

  Claude Lanzmann

  Thinking, Looks, Records

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• The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

  Thomas Struth

  Photography, Media, Portraits

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• I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

  Jack Welpott

  Wall, Long, Photograph

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• The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, World, Want

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Men, Cities

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• Make injustice visible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Injustice

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• The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Made, Senses

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

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• We can not understand the visible problem until we go to the invisible one.

  Randall Collins

  Problem, Invisible, Can Not

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• The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Lying, Secret

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.314, University of Chicago Press

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