#spectator

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#interested #lot #never #not interested #reactions

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#intuitive #may #meaning #medium #natural

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #empty #empty space #film #i

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ↗

— Confucius

#believe #comfortable #front #gently #given

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #case #emotional #front #important

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#anyway #artist #attempted #balancing #believe

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ↗

— Thomas Macaulay

#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. ↗

— Orson Welles

#excite #flying #hamlet #means #playing

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. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#assumes #existence #exists #fact #indifferent