The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. — Horace Copy Share Image
“I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.” — Robin McGraw Copy Share Image
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“Because Tavis had been the one to take the lion’s share of the heat when it turned out that Blue Jays’ spectators… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological… — Vsevolod Pudovkin Copy Share Image
Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society,… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be? — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play. — Dimitri Payet Copy Share Image
The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers — David Platt Copy Share Image
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!). — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator. — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
