O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.
Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.
The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.
The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs.
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.
In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.
You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's own mind of thoughts.
The reason I do what I do is that I find that Asian community gives me an endless source of humour. When I entered the filmmaking business, my whole purpose was to promote and make us visible because we were very much on the margins. So, I wanted to make us mainstream. My work has helped to mainstream-ise the Asian community.