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)

    The urge to kill, like the urge to beget,
    Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set
    Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can
    Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
    Andrei Voznesensky (b. 1933)

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