(210 quotes found)
“A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime maks the invisble visible.”
Marcel Marceau
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”
Walter Gropius
“The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
Robert Bresson
“Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity”
Demetrius (Phalereus)
“Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.”
Emile M. Cioran
“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Ovid
“RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.”
W. Stanley Jevons
“A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”
Clive Bell
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