Visual Blind Bidding

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

    “The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
    —Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)

    “A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
    What matter if the ditches are impure?
    What matter if I live it all once more?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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