Quotes About Visibility

I have an insidious conviction that between the onset of puberty and the age of thirty, people, like the hypothetical painting in the desert, do no exist without someone looking at them. I didn't. After thirty, I suppose we become a corporeal composite of what all of our viewers have witnessed, a kind of community gelatin.

But sometimes the hardest things in the world to see are the ones that are right up on you.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

This is another condition of art; to have no inside, nothing you cannot see.

Tandis qu'ils gravitaient tous autour d'elle, j'avais compris, à cet âge sans philosophie, que l'aveugle n'est pas celui qui ne voit pas, mais celui qu'on ne voit pas ; il n'est pire cécité que de passer partout inaperçu.

Never summon people to your office; it frightens them. Instead, go to see them in their offices, unannounced. A boss who never wanders about his agency becomes an invisible hermit. 3

Somewhere back on the moors, the visibility down to yards, I'd made that deal again. I catch him, stop him murdering mothers, orphaning children, then you give us one, just one.

The more, and the louder, we come out today, the easier it will be for those who can't do so until tomorrow.

When you have no voice, you don't exist

Work is freighted with difficulty and possibility of visible failure, failure to provide, to succeed, to make a difference, to be seen and to be seen to be seen. Work, therefore is robust vulnerability, and a good part of the time, a journey leading us through very unbeautiful private and public humiliations.

We banish the misaligned when we align with what we are called to; we become visible and real when we give our gift and stop waiting for the gift to be given to us.

Better to be looked over than overlooked. You want to walk into that funeral and have every dude in that room whip their head around and say, 'God-damn them is some fine-ass titties. I got to find me a divorce lawyer in the next five minutes.

Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

You can't make history going incognito.

three main secrets of a guerrilla marketing location: Internet, Internet, Internet.

it's never a forgone conclusion that anyone is actually going to see your work, no matter how good it is. And if nobody reads it, it doesn't exist.

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.