Composer Quote by HowardStone

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

— Guy Debord

“Cinema is a literature of images. Theatre is a literature of ideas. If you go twenty seconds without dialogue on the stage, you’ve had…

— Peter Glenville

“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely…

— Guy Debord

“I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.”

— John Stuart Mill

“It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot…

— Jim Morrison

“They don’t make spectacles for you, do they?”

— K.J. Charles

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

— Guy Debord

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read…

— Sergio Leone

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle…

— Guy Debord

“Exposition, after all, is telling and drama is showing.”

— John Yorke

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch