Spectator Quotes

192 Spectator quotes by 166 unique authors

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. — Jonathan Franzen
Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make… — Erma Bombeck
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. — Mantak Chia
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think… — Jacques Audiard
It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to… — Pedro Almodovar
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale… — Peter Ackroyd
I think words come between the spectator and the picture. — Howard Hodgkin
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator. — Gary Kemp
As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career. — Landon Donovan
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing. — Jean-Pierre Melville
Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest… — Peter Dobereiner
This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents… — Albert Einstein
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be… — Alex Prager
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself… — Joseph Addison
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know… — William Hazlitt
Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has… — John Berger
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly… — Ansel Adams
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and… — Eli Siegel
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds

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