Spectator Quotes
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
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The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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The spectator is a dying animal.
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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.
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America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport.
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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
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I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers с spoon-fed images.
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.
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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
