Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
Spectators quotes
Spectators
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"The spectator is a dying animal."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?"
Ansel Adams
Photographer
"I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it."
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"The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes."
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"We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators."
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