Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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.
Drinking is not a spectator sport.
The stakes. . . are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
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?
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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.
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an inescapable part of all nature, that its welfare is his welfare, that to survive, he cannot continue acting and regarding himself as a spectator looking on from somewhere outside.
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.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires. . . making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.
