Spectators Quotes

283 quotes by 248 authors

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
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled… — Albert Camus
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. — Oscar Wilde
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a… — Thomas Hardy
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting… — Marcel Duchamp
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. — Hannah Arendt
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. — Oscar Wilde
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can… — Ansel Adams
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are,… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I… — Albert Camus
God bless the American spectator. — Charlaine Harris
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four… — Scott Lynch
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport. — Paul Krugman
Faites de beaux rÃªves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to… — Tom Robbins
You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or… — Stephen King
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world,… — Charles Baudelaire

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