Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for…

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

— Tom T. Hall

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere,…

— Wim Wenders

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

Don't live life as a spectator.

— Felix Baumgartner

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

— Orson Welles

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…

— Marcel Duchamp

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games…

— Manuel Neuer

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

— Al Kooper

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

— Bernard Berenson

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…

— Plato

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on…

— Bruno Dumont

It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be…

— John Calvin

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

— Juha Vaatainen

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

— Alain Resnais