Viewers Quotes - Page 9

The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

Television, World, Want

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Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.

J.H. Wyman

Thinking, Legacy, Negative

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It's very important for us because we are viewers, first and foremost. We view more than we make. For us, it's important that the viewing experience is fun and thrilling and exciting and fresh and different. Those are our goals when we are writing something. When you watch it in the theatre, which I hope you will, how will you have the best experience possible? That's really important to us, and is the most thrilling.

Zal Batmanglij

Fun, Writing, Views

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My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

Ken Danby

Want, Painting

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[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

Sol LeWitt

Beautiful, Artist, Play

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As actors, we try to just do the character justice and try to make the writer's intentions come to life. If you do that to the best of your ability, that's really all you can do. All that other stuff, like a warm reception from fans and viewers, is just icing.

Tim Kang

Character, Justice, Trying

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I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.

Craig Ferguson

Mistake, Watches, Bloopers

"Craig Ferguson: We Need A New 'Late Shift'" by Kevin Kelly, filmschoolrejects.com. August 10, 2009.

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I've had people come up to me, as home viewers, and tell me they were screaming at the TV, yelling at each other, yelling at the contestants.

Howie Mandel

Home, Yelling, People

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What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.

Gerhard Richter

Levels, Able, Makers

Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

Michael Schudson

Heart, Addresses, Honest

Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.33, Routledge

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War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

David Burnett

War, Media, Tv Shows

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If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

Charis Wilson

Expression, Portraits, Body

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I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?

Uta Barth

Trying, Attention, Way

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People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.

Dawoud Bey

People, Casual, Glances

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My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.

Jean-Marc Bustamante

Responsibility, Aim

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The event is placed at such a distance, and contained, that these images move beyond the context in which they were made, the geographic setting, and so on, and engage the viewer in a one-to-one relationship solely through their physical presence.

Jean-Marc Bustamante

Distance, Moving, Events

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[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

Harold Feinstein

Firsts, Causes, First Time

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When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

Frank Gohlke

Important, Attention, Photographer

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As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.

John Gutmann

Believe, Want, Association

Sally Stein, John Gutmann, Amy Rule (2009). “John Gutmann: the photographer at work”, Yale Univ Pr

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I understand all the work to be of a nonabstract nature regardless of the style, form, or explicit subject matter because all the work... is concerned with evoking experiences that are in themselves - and their relationship to you, the viewer - the ultimate subject and content of the work. I want to equate the experience of the work with its meaning.

Roni Horn

Style, Want, Matter

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A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

Siegfried Kracauer

Running, Moments, Photograph

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Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force.

Vik Muniz

Art, Dark, Empowering

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My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.

Ruth Orkin

Beautiful, Mother, Moving

Ruth Orkin (1981). “A Photo Journal”, Studio

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One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

Adrian Piper

Artist, Reason, Reactions

Adrian Piper (1974). “Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object”

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A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

Martin Schoeller

Creating, Portraiture, Impossible

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