Spectator Quotes

192 Spectator quotes by 166 unique authors

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes… — Henry Moore
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. — Diane Ravitch
In life, be a participant, not a spectator. — Lou Holtz
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. — Lester R. Brown
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player. — Brent Weeks
I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take… — Galen
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress… — Bruno Dumont
Mathematics is not a spectator sport! — George Polya
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. — Barnett Newman
My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions.… — Padma Subrahmanyam
Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We… — Vicki Robin
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine… — Michelangelo Antonioni
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings… — Michel de Certeau
Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success,… — Ron Brown
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the… — John Berger
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part… — Henry David Thoreau
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,… — Heinrich Heine
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result. — Michael Basman
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity… — Aldous Huxley

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