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)