#spectator

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#everything #eye #highly #looking #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

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune. ↗

— Bert Williams

#his #humor #laugh #man #misfortune

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #because #before #capacity #disappears

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#am #because #better #fewer #getting

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

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter

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

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