As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them. — Trina Gulliver Copy Share Image
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of… — Mantak Chia Copy Share Image
In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have… — June Callwood Copy Share Image
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
There can be crowd issues everywhere in cycling. But it's a good thing for cycling that it's so accessible for spectators. That's… — Marianne Vos Copy Share Image
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or… — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star… — Yvonne Rainer Copy Share Image
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators. — William Feather Copy Share Image
“Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better. — Juha Vaatainen Copy Share Image
What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! — Ivan Slavkov Copy Share Image
“Each of his workouts was attended by ten thousand or more spectators.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing. — Jean-Pierre Melville Copy Share Image
The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform. — Sybil Leek Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator. — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed. — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
