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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• I think "Heroes of Cosplay" will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  Yaya Han

  Hero, Thinking, Hands

  "Cosplay's Wonder Woman: Yaya Han Leads 'Heroes Of Cosplay'". Interview with Aaron Sagers, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2013.

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• The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Information

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a spiritual practice, but sometimes it is hard to give up control!

  Pat Steir

  Spiritual, Art, Giving Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  Jerry Lewis

  Baby, Thinking, Machines

  "Hey Laaaady: Jerry Lewis Isn't Laughing". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

  Michael Landon

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

  David Lynch

  Photography, Different, Cinema

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• You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Thinking, Lost

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

  Jeff Koons

  Views, Moments, Artwork

  Interview With David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Want, Enjoy, Sequels

  Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Winning, Awards, Role Models

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• At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

  Michael Haneke

  Jumping, Giving, Flight

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• If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

  Christiane Amanpour

  No Respect, Ifs

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• The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Tired, Lost, Credibility

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• I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Idols, Singing

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• Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

  Bryan Cranston

  Watches, Want, Mature

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

  Bobby Flay

  Football, Weekend, Thinking

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• Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

  Annette Funicello

  Crush, Children, Clubs

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• I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

  Bear Grylls

  Drinking, Thinking, Suffering

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• I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

  Michael Haneke

  Way, Assault, One Way

  "Minister of Fear" by John Wray, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2007.

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• 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Doctors, Sometimes, Brady Bunch

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