Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993)
“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”
As quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."
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French mime and actor 1923–2007Related quotes
Sally Wen Mao Chinese-born American poet
On certain stories about Asian people being recycled in “HIJACKING THE NARRATIVE: A CONVERSATION WITH SALLY WEN MAO” https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/03/21/hijacking-the-narrative-a-conversation-with-sally-wen-mao/ in Adroit Journal (2019 Mar 21)
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878) British philosopher
Lewes here quotes from Paracelsus by Robert Browning
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Margaret Wheatley, Deborah Frieze (2011) Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. p. 31
“What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Quel che l'huom vede Amor gli fa invisibile
E l'invisibil fa vedere Amore.
Canto I, stanza 56 (tr. G. Waldman)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Edwin Abbott Abbott book Flatland
Source: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), PART II: OTHER WORLDS, Chapter 19. How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It
Context: I despair not that, even here, in this region of Three Dimensions, your Lordship's art may make the Fourth Dimension visible to me; just as in the Land of Two Dimensions my Teacher's skill would fain have opened the eyes of his blind servant to the invisible presence of a Third Dimension, though I saw it not.Let me recall the past. Was I not taught below that when I saw a Line and inferred a Plane, I in reality saw a Third unrecognized Dimension, not the same as brightness, called "height"? And does it not now follow that, in this region, when I see a Plane and infer a Solid, I really see a Fourth unrecognized Dimension, not the same as colour, but existent, though infinitesimal and incapable of measurement?
“I'm trying to make myself invisible."
"That's an odd thing to attempt.”
Lloyd Alexander book The Book of Three
Source: The Book of Three
“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”
Anderson Cooper (1967) journalist and author
“An invisible drawing made in the air. Make a drawing behind your back. Make a stolen painting.”
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
Book A (sketchbook), p 40, c 1963-64: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 53
1960s