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• Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.

  Antonin Artaud

  Distance, Theatre, Danger

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• Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

  Ted Malloch

  Motivation, Competition, Moral

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• 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.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Should, Peasants, Workers

  "Shostakovich: A Life". Book by Laurel Fay, p. 55, 2000.

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• . . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Murder Mysteries, Curiosity

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• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Art Is, Works Of Art

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.

  Chris Burden

  Two, Venice, Wire

  Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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

  Frederik Pohl

  Sports, Book, Pleasure

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• 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!

  Augusto Boal

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

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• Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

  Horace

  Retirement, Horse, Laughing

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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.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

  Michael Haneke

  Laughter, Mean, Two

  "No pain, no gain" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2001.

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• Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Tragedy, Life Is

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.18, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Beach, Doctors, People

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• So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Long, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.84, Modern Library

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• Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

  George Santayana

  Men, Soul, Vision

  'Little Essays' (1920) 'Ideal Immortality'

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• Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

  James T. Farrell

  Lonely, Loneliness, Party

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• The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.

  Jane Ellen Harrison

  Believe, Age, Watches

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• [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.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Horse, Princess, Thinking

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• I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Men, World

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

  Francois Guizot

  Investing, World, Pessimist

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• 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

  Sports, Office, Vote

  1993 In US News & World Report, 10 May.

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