Spectators Quotes

283 quotes by 251 authors

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They… — Noam Chomsky
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is… — Omar Sharif
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… — Paul Watzlawick
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley
Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The… — Leonardo da Vinci
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. — Oscar Wilde
At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric… — Chris Burden
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. — Frederik Pohl
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to… — Augusto Boal
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. — Horace
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. — Marcel Proust
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it. — Jonathan Swift
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafÃ©s full of customers, parks full of promenaders,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. — Lance Armstrong
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing. — Duane Michals
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators. — Murray Kempton
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. — Jonathan Franzen

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