Quotes about Spectator

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.' Votes: 4

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. Votes: 3

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator. Votes: 3

Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life. Votes: 3

Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted but was unable to run for a lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again. Votes: 3

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator. Votes: 3

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men. Votes: 3

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by. Votes: 2

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Votes: 2

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. Votes: 2

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Votes: 2

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Votes: 2

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. Votes: 2

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. Votes: 2

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. Votes: 2

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune. Votes: 2

As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career. Votes: 2

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. Votes: 2

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. Votes: 2

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. Votes: 2

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Votes: 2

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator. Votes: 2

Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags. Votes: 2

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas. Votes: 2

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Votes: 2

I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. Votes: 2

I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. Votes: 2

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together. Votes: 2

God bless the American spectator. Votes: 0

Mathematics is not a spectator sport! Votes: 0

Life is not a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Don't live life as a spectator. Votes: 0

The spectator is a dying animal. Votes: 0

Drinking is not a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Morality is not a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Democracy is not a spectator sport. Votes: 0

I believe marriage is a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator. Votes: 0

Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge. Votes: 0

In life, be a participant, not a spectator. Votes: 0

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport. Votes: 0

In no other sport must the spectator move. Votes: 0

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator. Votes: 0

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Going to the bathroom is not a spectator sport Votes: 0

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport. Votes: 0

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Votes: 0

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports. Votes: 0

I think words come between the spectator and the picture. Votes: 0

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by Votes: 0

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. Votes: 0

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. Votes: 0

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. Votes: 0

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing. Votes: 0

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives. Votes: 0

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. Votes: 0

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport. Votes: 0

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator. Votes: 0

Life is not a spectator sport; it requires full pads and full participation. Votes: 0

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show. Votes: 0

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport. Votes: 0

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. Votes: 0

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved. Votes: 0

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator. Votes: 0

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. Votes: 0

One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator. Votes: 0

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator. Votes: 0

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Votes: 0

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. Votes: 0

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Votes: 0

In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator. Votes: 0

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. Votes: 0

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. Votes: 0

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. Votes: 0

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. Votes: 0

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player. Votes: 0

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator. Votes: 0

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator. Votes: 0

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator. Votes: 0

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. Votes: 0

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. Votes: 0

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. Votes: 0

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. Votes: 0

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved. Votes: 0

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. Votes: 0

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants Votes: 0

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience? Votes: 0

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator. Votes: 0

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. Votes: 0

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. Votes: 0

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator. Votes: 0

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. Votes: 0

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator. Votes: 0

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development. Votes: 0

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life! Votes: 0

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. Votes: 0

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is. Votes: 0

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. Votes: 0

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. Votes: 0

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. Votes: 0

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being. Votes: 0

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter. Votes: 0

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result. Votes: 0

[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is. Votes: 0

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. Votes: 0

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands. Votes: 0

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged. Votes: 0

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions) Votes: 0

Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water. Votes: 0

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator. Votes: 0

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised? Votes: 0

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him. Votes: 0

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator. Votes: 0

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator. Votes: 0

The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it. Votes: 0

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. Votes: 0

It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. Votes: 0

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism. Votes: 0

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Votes: 0

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator. Votes: 0

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. Votes: 0

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 me. Votes: 0

Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing. Votes: 0

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported. Votes: 0

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose. Votes: 0

I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. Votes: 0

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. Votes: 0

If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something. Votes: 0

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Votes: 0

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work. Votes: 0

I'm a citizen in a democracy. To call me an activist would be redundant. It's not a spectator sport. If we all become non-participants, it no longer works. Votes: 0

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph. Votes: 0

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin. Votes: 0

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 ingesting spoon-fed images. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture. Votes: 0

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him. Votes: 0

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion Votes: 0

There is a warning for those Muslim countries, which witnessed all these as a silent spectator. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya, and Bosnia? Votes: 0

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport. Votes: 0

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me! Votes: 0

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. Votes: 0

I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo. Votes: 0

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it. Votes: 0

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view. Votes: 0

I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle. Votes: 0

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man. Votes: 0

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. Votes: 0

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen. Votes: 0

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste. Votes: 0

People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change. Votes: 0

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. Votes: 0

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned. Votes: 0

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter. Votes: 0