Spectators Quotes - Page 17

• Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

  Lyn Gardner

  Real, People, Theatre

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• If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

  Robert Harris

  Golf, Play, Long

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• The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

  Matthew Crawford

  Doe, Idle

  Matthew B. Crawford (2009). “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work”, p.71, Penguin

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• We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Dog, Horse, Believe

  "Nature and the Greeks". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1954.

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• It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Distance, Greatness

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Space

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan : 'No God but Cinema'” by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Theatre, Acting, Half

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2179, Delphi Classics

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• 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?

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Intelligent, Law, Stones

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• I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.

  Richard Sammel

  Character, Two, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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

  Barbara Jordan

  Sports, Government, Stakes

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.

  Ed Murray

  Character, Views, Numbers

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• The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

  Tim Crouch

  Responsibility, Play, Looks

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• When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

  Niels Bohr

  Life, Drama, Science

  Niels Bohr (2010). “Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge”, p.63, Courier Dover Publications

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• I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Two, Wish

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• Don't live life as a spectator.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Live Life

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• Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted but was unable to run for a lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again.

  Louis Menand

  Running, Writing, Space

  "Slips on the tongue" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2001.

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• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

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• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Laughing, Tragedy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• 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.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist, Journey, Essentials

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.

  Manuel Neuer

  Hate, Moving, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Believe, Artist, Doe

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• 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.

  Lisa P. Jackson

  Sports, Air, Water

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• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Believe, Men

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

  Robin McGraw

  Active, Participants

  Robin McGraw (2007). “Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The church is not an audience of spectators; we are a fellowship of disciple-makers

  David Platt

  Church, Fellowship, Makers

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2012

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