Visual Blind Bidding

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

    To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes—countrysides and figures, movements and gestures—how could he have a style, that is originality?
    Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

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