Visual Blind Bidding

Famous quotes containing the words visual, blind and/or bidding:

    The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.
    Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)