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.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.
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If everyone agrees that television has unrivaled efficiency at selling goods, services, culture, music, politics and fasion, why does the industry continue to claim that the one thing it cannot sell is violence?
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.
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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, footba...
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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