Top 373 Spectator Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
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.
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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.
Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine.
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.
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.
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.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
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.
With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.
I grew up in a house where I was a spectator to the sport of cooking. In that way, I just learned so much about what it really takes to make food.
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
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.
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
In 'Uthamaputhiran,' 'Velaiyilla Pattathari' and 'Yennai Arindhaal,' I was a mute spectator to everything.
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.
Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.
There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
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.
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
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.
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
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.
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.
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.
I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.
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.
Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.
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.
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.
I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
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.
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.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
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.
Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator or a reader.
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?
