Spectator Quotes

192 Spectator quotes by 166 unique authors

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext,… — Eugene Delacroix
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. — Alain de Botton
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the… — Alfred Sisley
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from… — John Mason Good
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear… — Sigfried Giedion
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris
If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions… — Seth Godin
I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and… — Jonathan Gottschall
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given… — Confucius
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. — E. M. Forster
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers… — Michael Haneke
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means… — Jack Kevorkian
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. — Michael Moore
Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in… — Paul Rand
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion… — Jackie Robinson
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. â€¦ It is a kind of talent in itself, to… — Ann Patchett

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