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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.
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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.
— James L. Petigru
Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There
— Charles Dickens
Humanity is a spectator sport. God is the spectator.
— Forrest Carr
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
— Alain De Botton
A spectator would conclude that I was living in the past. But I was very much living in the present. My present.
— Fennel Hudson
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
— Lawren Harris
Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.
— Jeff Lindsay
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.
— June Callwood
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
— Samuel R. Delany
In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.
— Joseph Marie, Baron De Gerando
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.
— Jean-Pierre Melville
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
— Jonathan Franzen
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
— William Hazlitt
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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.'
— Maurice Flanagan
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Bert Williams
Morality is not a spectator sport.
— Thomas Lickona
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
— Garry Kasparov
Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.
— Max McKeown
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
— Charles Simic
The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
— Barbara Jordan
A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.
— Marcel Proust
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.
— Landon Donovan
Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved.
— Billy Graham
I'll have to figure it out for myself. That's thge problem with life. It's not really a spectator sport.
— Heather Wardell
Don't live life as a spectator.
— Felix Baumgartner
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
— Frederik Pohl
Don't be a spectator in the kingdom of God , find something that you can do , at-least even going to church is one of them
— Alinani Joe
The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936]
— Elizabeth Bowen
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.
— Lester R. Brown
the spectator is the true vanishing point
— Siri Hustvedt
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
— Lou Holtz
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
— Eugene Delacroix
Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.
— George W. Bush
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
— Mervyn Levy
For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.
— Paul Krugman
As a spectator I witnessed the applause given to the performer, so I decided to be the performer.
— Amit Kalantri
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
— Wendell Phillips
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
— Miguel Syjuco
The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
— Antonio Banderas
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
— Henri Matisse
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
— Bernard Berenson
Philosophy is not a spectator sport.
— Nigel Warburton
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
— Okakura Kakuzo
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
— Christopher Hitchens
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.
— Paul LePaul
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
— Howard Hodgkin
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
— Max Ernst
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
— Brent Weeks
God created everyone uniquely and for a purpose, and not to be on this earth as a passive spectator
— Sunday Adelaja
Life is not a spectator sport.
— Jackie Robinson
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
— Mantak Chia
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
— Hannah Arendt
To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I
— Oscar Wilde
Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.
— Chuck Palahniuk
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.
— Anna Pavlova
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
— David Gergen
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.
— Peter Greenaway
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
— Bridget Riley
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
— E. M. Forster
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
— Joseph Plaskett
From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.
— George Sheehan
I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
— Ralph Nader
Are you a spectator or a player? It's time to be a real player, a partner, and a life changer.
— Farshad Asl
There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
— Rene Maheu
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
— Cory Booker
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
— Michael Basman
Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
— Kathryn Harrison
Be the player in your own dream life. Don't be a spectator watching your dreams every day; Let them get going!
— Israelmore Ayivor
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
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
— Alain Resnais
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
— Mason Cooley
Democracy is not a spectator sport
— Bernie Sanders
He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.
— Guillaume Musso
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.
— Arthur Rothstein
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
— Diane Ravitch
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
— Barnett Newman
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.
— Barbara Jordan
In no other sport must the spectator move.
— John Updike