Visual Blind Bidding

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

    “Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “But a blind man’s cane poking, however clumsily, into the inmost corners of the house.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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