I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively;… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion… — Omar Sharif Copy Share Image
It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she… — Bruce Jenner Copy Share Image
“I am, a spectator, so to speak of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every death even the cruelest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent,… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
“A small crowd was collecting. A small crowd collected very easily in Ankh-Morpork. As a city, it had some of the most… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams."… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908,… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Should people be mere "interested spectators of action," not "participants," restricted to lending their weight periodically to one or another sector of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
