Invisible quotes
335 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."
"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible."
"We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst."
"Invisible things are the only realities."
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"A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows"
"The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make."
"Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible."
"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."
"Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life."
"Something invisible snapped inside her."
"Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities."
"Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible."
"Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time."
"There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that."
"Genius is finding the invisible link between things."
"An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women."
"Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework."
"Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us."
"there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible."
"The visible is always a mirror of the invisible. The reality is imagined before it manifests itself."
"The poet is the priest of the invisible."
"Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life."
"Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities."
"Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside."
