Quotes About Visibility

Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promot­ing ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the manager of their own appearance.

In dealing with the epidemic of visibility menacing our entire culture today, we must, as Nietzsche quite correctly said, cultivate mendacious and deceptive clear-sightedness.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if the noticing is fear and disgust.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons, and she never took holidays because she said -- and I will never forget it -- When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

What were you hoping, when you removed the gags that stopped up these black mouths? That they would sing your praises? Did you think, when the heads our fathers had ground into the dust had raised themselves up again, you would see adoration in their eyes? Here are black men standing, men looking at us, and I want you to feel, as I do, the shock of being seen. For the white man has, for three thousand years, enjoyed the privilege of seeing without being seen. - Black Orpheus

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

My job is to continue to work very hard, to make sure the American people understand who I am, what I believe in, what I'll fight for. It's why I have been so accessible to the press.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.

I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

While it may be difficult to get on the front cover of a major magazine, you can create marketing strategies and opportunities by being featured in a popular niche blog.

People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

No one recognises me on the street, ever.