Top 373 Spectator Quotes & Sayings

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

Morality is not a spectator sport.

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

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

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

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

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

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

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

A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes after it with carefully calculated goals and no-holds-barred action. A spectator feels that his or her life is not their own. They let others dictate their destiny. They become victims of life instead of masters of it.

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

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

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

The spectator is a dying animal.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.

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

Don't live life as a spectator.

Celebrity's a spectator sport. You have to feed it.

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

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.

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.

No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

The Spectator' has to be managed and people have to report. We all have bosses in this world and that's true of 'The Spectator' too.

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

Life is not a spectator sport.

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

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

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

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

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

Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

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

I'm not a good spectator; I'm a nightmare when I'm injured and I'm not playing.

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

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

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.

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action!

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

I wrote my first song, called Spectator,' when I was 11.

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

Mathematics is not a spectator sport!

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

In no other sport must the spectator move.

I like the NBA game as a spectator.

God bless the American spectator.

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

If 'Spectator Business' works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from 'Spectator Arts' to 'Spectator Style and Travel' or 'Spectator Connoisseur.'

If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's playing in such a way that you can see that he's lying, and that's simply dumb. But to reach that, it requires that you make a film in such a way that a spectator feels compelled to find his own explanation. You want to lead the spectator to find his own interpretation. To ask questions rather than provide all of the answers. Doing that leads to open endings and open dramaturgy.

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

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

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