Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only 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.
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?
Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.
I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.
I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.
Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity. . . and, most of all, intellectualism.
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.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
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.
