Art Quote by Lawren Harris

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

— Oscar Wilde

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

— Bill Viola

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