Quotes About Visibility

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

He had no interest in fine clothes. Clothes were utilitarian as far as he was concerned. In cold weather, they should be warm and waterproof. In hot weather, light and airy. And bright colors served only to make a man stand out against the background, which was never a good idea in his opinion. A man who stood out against the background made an easy target.

Such clouds of dust had risen that there was a sort of twilight around.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

one reason Italians place such emphasis on what is visible is because they assume it is a representation of something that is not.

The superior confidence which people repose in the tall man is well merited. Being tall, he is more visible than other men and being more visible, he is much more closely watched. In consequence, his behavior is far better than that of smaller men.

Being 6'4" and a redhead has its advantages. I'm easy to spot in a crowd!

The structure of the world loomed in the partial visibility overhead, a lattice skeleton swathed erratically with light and darkness, further structures gleaming dully through translucent gas until depth of field rendered it opaque.

If I could see her, she could probably see me. If she was looking, and maybe even if she wasn't. And I expected her to be looking.

Never hide your light, for how else is a man to notice you? Your spark, your fire, is your most cherished possession.

The studio was connected by a picture window to master control, which was connected in the same way to the announce booth and the editing booth beyond that. She could see the length of the little station and into the hallway, too. And thus she was inducted into the visibility and invisibility of radio, the intimacy and the isolation.

I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

invisible and yet having a spotlight on

am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

Het is mijn redding geweest dat ik mijn verdriet aan de buitenkant draag, waar het niemand kan ontgaan

Ander mensen dragen hun verdriet in hun hart. Ongezien holt dat hen vanbinnen uit. Het is mijn redding geweest dat ik mijn verdriet aan de buitenkant draag, waar het niemand kan ontgaan.

There are exactly the same things in a room at night as there are in the daytime; it's just that you can't see them.

You could see her face, because she was Somali. Saudi women had no faces.

They're here, they're queer, get hip to them. ~ B. Ruby Rich

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.