Viewer Quotes

196 quotes by 172 authors

What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of… — Caspar David Friedrich
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. — Anthony Caro
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of… — R. Kent Hughes
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. — Jeff VanderMeer
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. — James Nachtwey
I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let… — Faith Ringgold
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer — Anish Kapoor
Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before! — Leonard Maltin
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. — Christian Morgenstern
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress… — Bruno Dumont
I donâ€™t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screenâ€™s head to explode. — Michael O'Donoghue
Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that were most effective… — Oren Peli
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. — Rockwell Kent
The world has never before had as much drama as today. Radio, films, television and video inundate us with drama. But while these forms can… — Girish Karnad
Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of… — Silas House
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest… — Edward Tufte
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four. — Jim Lehrer
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for… — Tadeusz Kantor
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core… — Aaron Siskind
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. — Nigel Kneale

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