Viewers Quotes

• The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

  Arthur Smith

  Real, Perception, Painting

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.

  Anne Geddes

  Strength, Photography, Impact

  87 Copy quote

• Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.

  James Elkins

  Mood, Inarticulate, Projection

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

  Russell Chatham

  Mind, Painting, Should

  4 Copy quote

• Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

  Arnold Aronson

  Art, Postmodernism, Bases

  5 Copy quote

• I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Home, Creating

  Source: londoncalling.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Goal, Childhood, Balls

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Leaving, Littles

  7 Copy quote

• I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me.

  Franny Armstrong

  Powerful, Rights, Film

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

  Lorne Michaels

  Community, Strategy, Consumerism

  4 Copy quote

• I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it is over to the viewer, they are either convinced or not convinced, moved or not moved and they decide whether they will take action or not.

  Franny Armstrong

  Roles, Action, Argument

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

  Jill Douglas

  Sports, Commitment, Effort

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Unique, Drawing

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't have formal training, that makes what we're experiencing a little bit more accessible to the viewers. If we actually knew what we were doing ahead of time, it would just be like talking at you, instead of experiencing the situation with you.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Talking, Training, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

  Claude Lelouch

  Firsts, Attention, Credit

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film.

  Takashi Miike

  Mind, Boards, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Long, Use

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to. For me personally as a viewer, this technique invariably causes me to have waves of emotions that I think arise from a profound form of mindful awareness and the feelings that go along with that. I am frequently brought to tears by this kind of existential cinematic technique.

  Jenni Olson

  Cutting, Thinking, Profound

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

  Kevin Spacey

  Laughter, People, Goal

  Source: www.skyword.com

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Intention, Subjective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every network wants to capture new viewers, but that's up to the networks.

  Jack Kenny

  Want, Capture

  Source: collider.com

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.

  Michael Almereyda

  Children, Humble, Flames

  1 Copy quote

• In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Art, Distance, Reality

  11 Copy quote

• The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

  A. O. Scott

  Eye, Past, Visions Of The Future

  6 Copy quote

• Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraordinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Educational, Reading

  1 Copy quote