Visible Quotes

821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. — Alexander Pope
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every… — Henri Matisse
It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. — Georges Braque
All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner… — Dogen
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see… — Paul Klee
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. — Paul Klee
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to… — Pico Iyer
For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner… — Werner Herzog
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible. — Leo Baeck
A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid. — Howard Hodgkin
What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is. — Giorgio Morandi
Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is… — Bryan Davis
Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its… — David Whyte
I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips
The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world… — James J. Gibson
Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind… — Lawren Harris
Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground...… — Mu Xin
the highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible... — Egon Friedell
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man… — John Muir
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… — Pythagoras
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves… — Erasmus Darwin
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our… — John Muir
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning… — John Muir

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