Spectators Quotes

283 quotes by 248 authors

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 canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. — Okakura Kakuzo
It is the spectators who make the pictures. — Marcel Duchamp
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
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
When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen… — Anne, Princess Royal
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
My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators. — Gerald R. Ford
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
If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero. — Wu Guanzhong
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt,… — William Hazlitt
Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who… — Susan Hockfield

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