Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.
I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
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.
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are.
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.
Don't live life as a spectator.
Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.
Life is not a spectator sport.
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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.
At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
