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)

“So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

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