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• The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.

  Michael Ayrton

  Communication, Artist, Drawing

  Michael Ayrton (1962). “Drawing and Sculpture”

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• The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Mind, Behind The Scenes

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Journey, Cells, Starting Over

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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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• Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.

  Frank Nugent

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Feelings, Trying

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, art I, Chapter III, 1953.

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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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• 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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• In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Drama, Hands

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story. The film has been extremely well received around the world. It keeps on going around, opening in different markets, and connecting with the audience. In Argentina it was seen by over 450, 000 spectators, which is way more than anything we could have imagined.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Thinking, Doctors, Historical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Past, Important, Film

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film 'The Past'". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• 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.

  Lisa Langseth

  Purpose, Answers, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Ralph Nader

  People, Too Much, Behavior

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Sadness, Stupidity, Tears

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• I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

  Henri Matisse

  Eye, Expression, Imagination

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• Both cinematic culture and the culture at large have changed profoundly. We're now in post-cinematic digital culture, and the internet has obviously usurped movies, which are no longer central to our lives, at least not as a collective spectator experience.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Digital, Culture, Internet

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

  Dean Cavanagh

  Ballet, Erotic, Mind

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• Pausing a few beats allows the spectators time to savor the experience of the miracle that has just occurred.

  Roberto Giobbi

  Miracle, Pausing, Beats

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• Sadly, I have met very few people who have a plan for their life. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold, one day at a time. They are reactive rather than proactive. They may plan their careers, the building of a new home, or even a vacation. But it never occurs to them to plan their life.

  Michael Hyatt

  Home, Vacation, Careers

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• 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.

  John Berger

  Men, Average, Oil

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

  Anna Pavlova

  Artist, Should Have, Secret

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• While we tend to conceive of the operations of the mind as unified and transparent, they're actually chaotic and opaque. There's no invisible boss in the brain, no central meaner, no unitary self in command of our activities and utterances. There's no internal spectator of a Cartesian theater in our heads to applaud the march of consciousness across its stage.

  Daniel Dennett

  Self, Boss, Brain

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• Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sports, Art, Chess

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

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• Drinking is not a spectator sport.

  Jim Brosnan

  Sports, Drinking

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