Language Quote by Howard Hodgkin

“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is a performer.…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

— Howard Hodgkin

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

— Evel Knievel

Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team.…

— Vicki Robin

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he…

— Douglas Portway

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.

— Mason Cooley

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

— Elaine Dundy

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.

— Okakura Kakuzo

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

Don't live life as a spectator.

— Felix Baumgartner

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…

— Marcel Duchamp

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

— Al Kooper