Spectator Quotes

192 Spectator quotes by 166 unique authors

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the… — H. L. Mencken
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm… — Anton Chekhov
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. — Eugene Delacroix
Don't live life as a spectator. — Felix Baumgartner
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the… — Mark Rothko
If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus.… — N. T. Wright
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 the… — Manuel Neuer
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
Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water. — Lisa P. Jackson
It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted… — Louis Menand
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The… — Leonardo da Vinci
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. — Frederik Pohl
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to… — Augusto Boal
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips

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