Viewer Quotes

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. (Anish Kapoor)
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. View quote
Manuel Puig
A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. View quote
Jerry Lewis
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. View quote
William Albert Allard
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
The artist's aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. View quote
Sol LeWitt
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. View quote
Anish Kapoor
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. View quote
Ansel Adams
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her. View quote
Siegfried Kracauer
I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. (Tobe Hooper)
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. View quote
Anthony Caro
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want. View quote
Bruno Dumont
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. View quote
Fay Godwin
Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer. View quote
Jeff Probst
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer. View quote
Jessica Savitch
I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer. View quote
Lawrence Kasdan
Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series. View quote
Shawn Ryan
The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS. View quote
Tony Verna
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on. View quote
William Devane
If a painting has a soulful effect on the viewer, if it puts his mind into a soulful mood, then it has fulfilled the first requirement of a work of art. However bad it might be in drawing, color, handling, etc. (Caspar David Friedrich)
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised. View quote
Rockwell Kent
Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls. View quote
David Shuster
The new vision.... does not proceed from a fixed point. Its viewpoint is everywhere, and not limited to any one position [in space]. Nor is it bound by space or time (in accordance with the theory of relativity) [of Einstein ]. In practice, the viewpoint is in front of the plane... Thus this new vision sees architecture as a multiplicity of planes; again flat. This multiplicity composes itself (in an abstract sense) into a flat image [in contrast to Theo van Doesburg who emphasized the dynamic position of the viewer – a central idea of Futurism in 1919]. View quote
Piet Mondrian
And amid the thunderous roar of a world in collision WE, ON THE LAST STAGE OF THE PATH TO SUPREMATISM BLASTED ASIDE THE OLD WORK OF ART LIKE A BEING OF FLESH AND BLOOD AND TURNED IT INTO A WORLD FLOATING IN SPACE. WE CARRIED BOTH PICTURE AND VIEWER OUT BEYOND THE CONFINES OF THIS SPHERE AND IN ORDER TO COMPREHEND IT FULLY THE VIEWER MUST CIRCLE LIKE A PLANET ROUND THE PICTURE WHICH REMAINS IMMOBILE IN THE CENTER. The empty phrase 'art for art's sake' had already been wiped out. View quote
El Lissitsky